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…

But the efforts of a sophistical Wit against sense, and more ⟨p. 40⟩against the sense of our Souls, and most of all against the entire sum and substance of all Morality, and Religion, at once, are but like the attempt to batter a Wall of Brass with straws and feathers.

But the efforts of a sophistical Wit against sense, and more ⟨p. 40⟩against the sense of our Souls, and most of all against the entire summe and substance of all Morality, and Religion, at once, are but like the attempt to batter a Wall of Brass with straws and feathers.

Nor is the assault, on this part, more feeble and impotent, than the defence is wont to be of the other. For I would appeal to the quick refined sense of any sober and pious mind, after serious, inward consultation with it self; being closely urged, with the horror of so black a conception of God [that he should be supposed irresistibly to determine the will of a man to the hatred of his own most Blessed Self, and then to exact severest Punishments for the offence done] what relief it would now be to it, to be only ⟨p. 41⟩taught to reply, [That Man is under the Law, and God above it.]

Nor is the assault, on this part, more feeble and impotent, than the defence is wont to be of the other. For I would appeal to the qick refined sense of any sober and pious mind, after serious, inward consultation with it self; being closely urged, with the horrour of so black a conception of God [that he should be supposed irresistibly to determine the will of a man to the hatred of his own most Blessed Self, and then to exact severest Punishments for the offence done] what relief it would now be to it, to be only ⟨p. 41⟩