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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
THE RECONCILABLENESS OF God's Prescience, &c.THE RECONCILEABLENESS OF God's Prescience, &c.
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.
The doubt, I well know, was mentioned by you as other Mens, and not your own; whose clear mind, and diligent enquiry leave you little liable to be encumbered with greater difficulties.
The doubt, I well know, was mention'd by you as other Mens, and not your own; whose clear mind, and diligent enqiry leave you little liable to be encumb'red with greater difficulties.
Wherefore that I so soon divert from you, and no more allow these papers to express any regard unto you, till the ⟨p. 1⟩shutting of the discourse, is only a seeming disrespect or indecorum, put in the stead of a real one. For after you have given them the countenance, as to let it be understood, you gave the first rise and occasion to the business and design of them; I had little reason to slur that stamp put upon them, by adding to their (enough other) faults, that of making them guilty of so great a misdemeanour, and impertinency, as to continue a discourse of this length, to one that hath so little leisure or occasion to attend to any thing can be said by them.
Wherefore that I so soon divert from you, and no more allow these papers to express any regard unto you, till the ⟨p. 1⟩shutting of the discourse, is only a seeming disrespect or indecorum, put in the stead of a real one. For after you have given them the countenance, as to let it be understood, you gave the first rise and occasion to the business and design of them; I had little reason to slur that stamp put upon them, by adding to their (enough other) faults, that of making them guilty of so great a misdemeanour, and impertinency, as to continue a discourse of this length, to one that hath so little leasure or occasion to attend to any thing can be said by them.