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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Neither yet was it necessary, that effectual care should be taken, they should actually reach all, and be applied to every individual person. Since it is apparently to be resolved into the wickedness of the World, that they do not so; and that there is not an universal diffusion of the Gospel into every part.
Neither yet was it necessary, that effectual care should be taken, they should actually reach all, and be apply'd to every individual person. Since it is apparently to be resolved into the wickednes of the World, that they do not so; and that there is not an universal diffusion of the Gospel into every part.
For it being evident to any ones ⟨p. 68⟩reflection, that men are in a state of apostasy and defection from their Maker and common Lord, and therefore subject to his displeasure; Whereas the Merciful God hath done his own part, and so much beyond what was to be expected from him; issued out his Proclamations of Peace, and Pardon, upon so easy and indulgent terms, as are expressed in his Gospel; if, hereupon, men also did their part, behaved themselves suitably to the exigency of their case, and as did become reasonable Creatures, fallen under the displeasure of their Maker, (whereof their common condition affords so innumerable, so pregnant proofs) The Gospel, wheresoever it should arrive, would have been entertained with so great a transport of joy, ⟨p. 69⟩and so ready and universal acceptance, as very soon to have made a great noise in the World: And being found to be of an universal tenor and concernment, and that what is says to one Nation, it equally says the same to every one; It could not but be, that Messengers would interchangeably have run from Nation, to Nation; some to communicate, others to enquire after those strange tidings of great joy unto all people, lately sent from Heaven; concerning the Emmanuel, God with us; God, again upon his return to Man, and now in Christ reconciling the World to himself. And thus how easily, and even naturally, would the Gospel soon have spread it self thorough the World? Especially the merciful God having so provided,