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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.
§. XXIII.
Nor (as we also undertook to show) could any course (within our prospect) have been taken, that was fit, in it self, and more agreeable to sincerity.
Nor (as we also undertook to shew) could any course (within our prospect) have been taken, that was fit, in it self, and more agreeable to sincerity.
There are only these two ways to be thought on, besides. Either that God should wholly have forborne to make overtures to men in common.
There are only these two waies to be thought on, besides. Either that God should wholly have forborn to make overtures to men in common.
Or, that he should efficaciously have overpowered all into a compliance with them. And there is little doubt, but, upon sober consideration, both of these will be judged altogether unfit.
Or, that he should efficaciously have overpow'red all into a compliance with them. And there is little doubt, but, upon sober consideration, both of these will be judg'd altogether unfit.