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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.
It is not strange, that our so straitly limited understandings, ⟨p. 9⟩should not be able to lodge commodiously the immense perfections of a Deity. So as to allow them liberty to spread themselves in our thoughts in their entire proportions. And because we cannot, we complain, when we feel our selves a little pinched, that the things will not consist; when the matter is, that we have unduly crowded and huddled them up together, in our incomprehensive minds, that have not distinctly conceived them.
It is not strange, that our so straitly limited understandings, ⟨p. 9⟩should not be able to lodg commodiously the immense perfections of a Deity. So as to allow them liberty to spread themselves in our thoughts in their entire proportions. And because we cannoot, we complain, when we feel our selves a little pincht, that the things will not consist; when the matter is, that we have unduly crouded and huddled them up together, in our incomprehensive minds, that have not distinctly conceived them.
And tho this consideration should not be used for the protection of an usurped liberty of fastening upon God, arbitrarily and at random, what we please (As indeed what so gross absurdity might not any one give shelter to by such a misapplication of it?) We ought yet to think it seasonably ⟨p. 10⟩applied, when we find our selves urged with difficulties on one hand and the other; and apprehend it hard, with clearness and satisfaction, to ascribe to God, what we also find it not easy not to ascribe.
And tho this consideration should not be used for the protection of an usurped liberty of fastening upon God, arbitrarily and at random, what we please (As indeed what so gross absurdity might not any one give shelter to by such a misapplication of it?) We ought yet to think it seasonably