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…

And since the public declarations of his good will, towards ⟨p. 119⟩all men, import no more than the former, and do plainly import so much; Their correspondency to the matter declared is sufficiently apparent.

And so is the congruity of both with his prescience of the event.

For tho, when God urges and incites men, by exhortations, promises, and threats, to the doing of their own part (which it is most agreeable to his holy gracious Nature to do) he foresee, many will not be moved thereby; but persist in wilful neglect, and rebellions till they perish: He, at the same time, sees that they might do otherwise, and that, if they would comply with his methods, things would otherwise issue with them. His prescience, no way, imposing upon ⟨p. 120⟩them a necessity to transgress. For they do it not because he foreknew it, but he only foreknew it because they would do so. And hence he had, as it was necessary he should have, not only this for the object of his foreknowledge, that they would do amiss and perish. But the whole case in its circumstances, that they would do so, not thorough his omission, but their own. And there had been no place left for this state of the case; if his public Edicts and Manifests, had not gone forth, in this tenor as they have.

For tho, when God urges and incites men, by exhortations, promises, and threats, to the doing of their own part (which it is most agreeable to his holy gracious Nature to do) he foresee, many will not be moved thereby; but persist in wilful neglect, and rebellions till they perish: He, at the same time, sees that they might do otherwise, and that, if they would comply with his methods, things would otherwise issue with them. His prescience, no way, imposing upon