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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.
§. XIV.
Nor again was it at all incongruous, or unbecoming, that the Blessed God, this being the common temper, and disposition of all men, to reject his gracious tenders, should provide, by some extraordinary means, that they might not be finally rejected by all. For what can be more appropriate to Sovereignty (even where it is infinitely less absolute) than, arbitrarily, to design the objects of special favour? Who blames a Prince, for placing special marks of his Royal bounty, or clemency here and there, as he thinks fit? or that he hath some peculiar favourites, with ⟨p. 75⟩whom he familiarly converses, whom he hath won, by some or other not-common inducements, and assured their loyal affection: tho there be thousands of Persons in his dominions besides, of as good parts, dispositions, and deserts as they? It belongs to Sovereignty, only so, to be favourable to some, as, in the mean time, to be just towards all.
Nor again was it at all incongruous, or unbecoming, that the Blessed God, this being the common temper, and disposition of all men, to reject his gracious tenders, should provide, by some extraordinary means, that they might not be finally rejected by all. For what can be more appropriate to Sovereignty (even where it is infinitely less absolute) than, arbitrarily, to design the objects of special favour? Who blames a Prince, for placing special marks of his Royal bounty, or clemency here and there, as he thinkes fit? or that he hath some peculiar favourites, with ⟨p. 75⟩whom he familiarly converses, whom he hath won, by some or other not-common inducements, and assured their loyal affection: tho there be thousands of Persons in his dominions besides, of as good parts, dispositions, and deserts as they? It belongs to Sovereignty, only so, to be favourable to some, as, in the mean time, to be just towards all.