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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.
Nor is the affirmation naked, and unfortified. For, in the same sacred records, we have the same thing both affirmed and proved: Inasmuch as we find, in a great part thereof, are contained things foretold by most express Prophecy, unto which the Events recorded in other parts (and many of them in other unquestioned Writings besides) have so punctually corresponded, as to leave no place for doubt or cavil. Instances are so plain and well known that they need not be mentioned. And ⟨p. 26⟩surely what was so expressly foretold could not but have been foreknown.
Nor is the affirmation naked, and unfortify'd. For, in the same sacred records, we have the same thing both affirmed and proved: Inasmuch as we find, in a great part thereof, are contained things foretold by most express Prophecy, unto which the Events recorded in other parts (and many of them in other unqestioned Writings besides) have so punctually corresponded, as to leave no place for doubt or cavil. Instances are so plain and well known that they need not be mentioned. And ⟨p. 26⟩surely what was so expressly foretold could not but have been foreknown.
It seems then an attempt also equally hopeless and unrelieving, as it were adventurous and bold, to offer at the protection of his Wisdom and Sincerity, by assaulting his Prescience or certain foreknowledge of whatsoever shall come to pass.
It seems then an attempt also eqally hopeles and unrelieving, as it were adventurous and bold, to offer at the protection of his Wisdom and Sinceritie, by assaulting his Prescience or certain foreknowledg of whatsoever shall come to pass.