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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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It were very unreasonable to expect, since this World shall continue but a little while, that all God's managements, and ways of procedure, in ordering the great affairs of it, should be attempered, and fitted to the judgment, that shall be made of them in this temporary state, that will so soon be over: And to the present apprehension and capacity of our (now so muddied and distempered) Minds. A vast and stable eternity remains, wherein, the whole Celestial Chorus shall ⟨p. 152⟩entertain themselves, with the grateful contemplation, and applause, of his deep Counsels. Such things as now seem perplex, and intricate to us, will appear most irreprehensibly fair, and comely to angelical minds, and our own, when we shall be vouchsafed a place amongst that happy Community. What discovery God affords of his own glorious Excellencies, and Perfections is principally intended to recommend him, in that state; wherein he, and all his ways and works, are to be beheld with everlasting, and most complacential approbation.
It were very unreasonable to expect, since this World shall continue but a little while, that all God's managements, and waies of procedure, in ordering the great affairs of it, should be attempered, and fitted to the judgment, that shall be made of them in this temporary state, that will so soon be over: And to the present apprehension and capacity of our (now so muddied and distempered) Minds. A vast and stable eternity remains, wherein, the whole Celestial Chorus shall ⟨p. 152⟩entertain themselves, with the grateful contemplation, and applause, of his deep Counsels. Such things as now seem perplex, and intricate to us, will appear most irreprehensibly fair, and comely to angelical minds, and our own, when we shall be vouchsaf't a place amongst that happy Community. What discovery God affords of his own glorious Excellencies, and Perfections is principally intended to recommend him, in that state; wherein he, and all his waies and works, are to be beheld with everlasting, and most complacential approbation.