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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.
For whatsoever obligation strict justice hath upon us, that congruity cannot but have upon him. And whereas it would be concluded, that whatsoever any one truly wills, they would effect if they could, we admit it for true, and to be applied in the present case. But add,
For whatsoever obligation strict justice hath upon us, that congruity cannot but have upon him. And whereas it would be concluded, that whatsoever any one truly wills, they would effect if they could, we admit it for true, and to be applied in the present case. But adde,
That as we rightly esteem that impossible to us, which we cannot justly do, so is that to him, not only, which he cannot do justly, but which, upon the whole matter ⟨p. 149⟩he cannot do, most wisely also. That is, which his infinite wisdom doth not dictate, is most congruous and fit to be done.
Things cohere, and are held together, in the course of his dispensation, by congruities as by adamantine bands, and cannot be otherwise. That is, comparing and taking things together, especially the most important. For otherwise, to have been nicely curious about every minute thing, singly considered, that it might not possibly have been better (as in the frame of this or that individual animal or the like) had been needlessly to interrupt the course of Nature, and therefore, it self, to him an incongruity. And doth, in them that expect it, import more of a trifling ⟨p. 150⟩disposition, than of true Wisdom.
Things cohere, and are held together, in the course of his dispensation, by congruities as by adamantine bands, and cannot be otherwise. That is, comparing and taking things together, especially the most important. For otherwise, to have been nicely curious about every minute thing, singly considered, that it might not possibly have been better (as in the frame of this or that individual animal or the like) had been needlesly to interrupt the course of Nature, and therefore, it self, to him an incongruity. And doth, in them that expect it, import more of a trifling