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…

And except it were affirmed impossible to God to have made such a Creature, (that is, that it implied a contradiction, which certainly can never be proved) there is no imaginable pretence why it should not be admitted he hath done it: Rather than so fatally expose the Wisdom, Goodness, and Righteousness of God, by supposing him to have made Laws for his reasonable Creatures, impossible, thorough his own irresistible counter-action, to ⟨p. 38⟩be observed: and afterwards to express himself displeased, and adjudge his Creatures to eternal punishments, for not observing them.

And except it were affirmed impossible to God to have made such a Creature, (that is, that it imply'd a contradiction, which certainly can never be proved) there is no imaginable pretence why it should not be admitted he hath done it: Rather than so fatally expose the Wisdom, Goodnes, and Righteousnes of God, by supposing him to have made Lawes for his reasonable Creatures, impossible, thorough his own irresistible counter-action, to ⟨p. 38⟩be observed: and afterwards to express himself displeased, and adjudg his Creatures to eternal punishments, for not observing them.

I am not altogether ignorant what attempts have been made to prove it impossible, Nor again, what hath been done to manifest the vanity of those attempts. But I must confess a greater disposition to wonder, that ever such a thing should be disputed, that dispute so plain a case. And that a matter whereupon all moral Government depends, both humane and divine, should not have been determined at the first sight.

'Tis not hard for a good Wit to have somewhat to say for any thing. But to dispute against the common sense of Mankind, we know before hand, is but to