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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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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 ⟨p. 10⟩apply'd, when we find our selves urged with difficulties on one hand and the other; and apprehend it hard, with clearnes and satisfaction, to ascribe to God, what we also find it not easie not to ascribe.
Nor would it be less unfit to apply it for the patronage of that slothfulness wherein our discouraged minds are sometimes too prone to indulge themselves.
Nor would it be less unfit to apply it for the patronage of that slothfulnes wherein our discouraged minds are sometimes too prone to indulge themselves.
To which purpose I remember somewhat very apposite in Minucius Felix, That many thorough the mere tediousness of finding out the truth, do rather, by a mean succumbency, yield to the first specious show of any opinion whatsoever than be at the trouble, by a pertinacious diligence, of applying, themselves to a thorough search.