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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 when we make a comparison, we may find our selves at a certainty concerning those his Attributes which most commonly, and at the first view, approve themselves to every man's understanding.
Among which we little hesitate, (as we are most concerned not to do,) about those which carry with them the import of moral goodness; and which render the object of ⟨p. 13⟩our Religion, at once, both most venerable and lovely. For none do more naturally obtain for common notions concerning him; so as even to prevent ratiocination or argument, with whomsoever the apprehension of his existence hath place.
Among which we little hesitate, (as we are most concern'd not to do,) about those which carry with them the import of moral goodness; and which render the object of ⟨p. 13⟩our Religion, at once, both most venerable and lovely. For none do more naturally obtain for common notions concerning him; so as even to prevent rationcination or argument, with whomsoever the apprehension of his existence hath place.
Every man's mind, it being once acknowledged that there is a God, refuses to conceive otherwise of him, than that he is holy, just, merciful, true, &c. And rejects with abhorrency the notion of an impure, unrighteous, cruel, deceitful Deity.
Every man's mind, it being once acknowledg'd that there is a God, refuses to conceive otherwise of him, than that he is holy, just, merciful, true, &c. And rejects with abhorrency the notion of an impure, unrighteous, cruel, deceitful Deity.