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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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As to the former sort of these ends, we may be confident they were all most absolutely intended, and can never fail of being accomplished.
As to the former sort of these ends, we may be confident they were all most absolutely intended, and can never fail of being accomplisht.
For the latter, It cannot be universally said so. For these, being not entirely his ends, But partly his, and partly prescribed by him, to his reasonable Creatures, to be theirs. We are to conceive he always, most absolutely, intends to do, what he righteously esteems congruous▪ should be his own part; which he extends and limits, as seems good ⟨p. 101⟩unto him. And sometimes, of his own good Pleasure, assumes to himself the doing of so much, as shall ascertain the end; Effectually procuring, that his Creature shall do his part also. That is, not only enacts his Law, and adds exhortations, warnings, promises, to enforce it, but also emits that effectual influence, whereby the inferior wheels shall be put into motion, the powers and faculties of his governed Creature excited and assisted, and (by a spirit in the wheels) made as the Chariots of a willing people. At other times and in other instances, he doth less, and meeting with resistance, sooner retires; follows not his external Edicts and Declarations, with so potent and determinative an influence; but that the ⟨p. 102⟩Creature, through his own great default, may omit to do his part, and so that end be not effected.
For the latter, It cannot be universally said so. For these, being not entirely his ends, But partly his, and partly prescribed by him, to his reasonable Creatures, to be theirs. We are to conceive he alwaies, most absolutely, intends to do, what he righteously esteems congruous▪ should be his own part; which he extends and limits, as seems good