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The reconcilableness of God's prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and…The reconcileableness of God's prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and…
The reconcilableness of God's prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them / in a letter to the Honourable Robert Boyle Esq.The reconcileableness of God's prescience of the sins of men with the wisdom and sincerity of his counsels, exhortations, and whatsoever other means he uses to prevent them / in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq.
London: printed for Brabazon Aylmer, 1677
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§. XII.
And hereupon it may be expected, ⟨p. 65⟩the more ingenuous, and candid, will allow themselves to think the matter tolerably clear, in reference to the former part of the proposed difficulty; i. e. will apprehend this way of dealing with men not imprudent, or inconsistent with the Divine Wisdom, since, tho one end, in a great part, fail, yet another, more valuable, is attained.
But yet, as to the latter part, the difficulty may still urge, viz. how it can stand with sincerity, whereas that end also which fails, seems to have been most directly intended, that the Blessed God should seem so earnestly intent upon it. Since it is hardly conceivable, that the same thing should be, at once, seriously intended as an end, and yet, at the same time, give the eye, which ⟨p. 66⟩seems to design it; no other prospect, than of a thing never to be brought to pass.
But yet, as to the latter part, the difficulty may still urge, viz. how it can stand with sinceritie, whereas that end also which failes, seems to have been most directly intended, that the Blessed God should seem so earnestly intent upon it. Since it is hardly conceiveable, that the same thing should be, at once, seriously intended as an end, and yet, at the same time, give the eye, which ⟨p. 66⟩seems to design it; no other prospect, than of a thing never to be brought to pass.