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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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§. XXII.
And whereas it may be thought to follow hence, that hereby we ascribe to God a liablenes to frustration, and disappointment. That is without pretence. The resolve of the Divine Will, in this matter, being not concerning the event what Man shall do, But ⟨p. 113⟩concerning his duty what he should, and concerning the connection between his duty, and his happiness. Which, we say, he doth not only seem to will, but wills it really and truly. Nor would his Prescience of the event, which we all this while assert, let frustration be so much as possible to him. Especially, it being at once foreseen, that his Will, being crossed in this, would be fulfilled in so important a thing, as the preserving the decorum of his own Government. Which had been most apparently blemished, beyond what could consist with the Perfections of the Deity, if either his Will concerning Man's duty, or the declarations of that Will, had not been substantially, the same that they are.
And whereas it may be thought to follow hence, that hereby we ascribe to God a liablenes to frustration, and disappointment. That is without pretence. The resolve of the Divine Will, in this matter, being not concerning the event what Man shall do, But ⟨p. 113⟩concerning his duty what he should, and concerning the connection between his duty, and his happines. Which, we say, he doth not only seem to will, but wills it really and truly. Nor would his Prescience of the event, which we all this while assert, let frustration be so much as possible to him. Especially, it being at once foreseen, that his Will, being crossed in this, would be fulfilled in so important a thing, as the preserving the decorum of his own Government. Which had been most apparently blemisht, beyond what could consist with the Perfections of the Deity, if either his Will concerning Man's duty, or the declarations of that Will, had not been substantially, the same that they are.