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…

That it necessarily belongs to the Original and Fountain-Being, to be the first Cause of whatsoever Being; And consequently, that what there is of positive Being in any the most wicked action, must principally owe it self to the determinative productive influence of this first and sovereign Cause. Otherwise it would seem there were some Being that were neither Primum, nor a primo.

And again (which we are more concerned to consider, because it more concerns our present subject) that it were otherwise impossible God should foreknow the sinful actions of men (many whereof, as hath been observed, he hath foretold) if their futurition were a mere contingency, ⟨p. 36⟩and depended on the uncertain will of the subordinate agent, not determined by the Supreme.

And again (which we are more concerned to consider, because it more concerns our present subject) that it were otherwise impossible God should foreknow the sinful actions of men (many whereof, as hath been observed, he hath foretold) if their futurition were a meer contingency, ⟨p. 36⟩and depended on the uncertain will of the subordinate agent, not determined by the Supream.

But neither of these seem able to infer the dismal conclusion of God's concurring by a determinative influence unto wicked actions.