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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 it here asserted with any other design, than to exempt the Blessed God, as far as is possible; from a participation in the evil actions of his Creatures: In the ⟨p. 47⟩mean time entitling him, most entirely, to those that are sincerely good. Tho it must be left imputable to men themselves (it being thorough their own great default) if they have not the grace, which might effectually enable them, to do such also.
And as for the latter. This supposed indetermination of the human will, in reference, especially, to wicked actions, is far from being capable of inferring, that God cannot therefore foreknow them; Or any thing more, than that we are left ignorant of the way, how he foreknows them. And how small is the inconvenience of acknowledging that? Yea and how manifest the absurdity of not acknowledging the like, in many cases? Since nothing is more certain, than that God doth many ⟨p. 48⟩things besides, whereof the manner, how he does them, we can neither explicate nor understand! For neither is it difficult to assign instances, more than enough, of actions done by our selves, of the manner whereof, we can give no distinct account, as those of vision, intellection, with sundry other.
And as for the latter. This supposed indetermination of the human will, in reference, especially, to wicked actions, is far from being capable of inferring, that God cannot therefore foreknow them; Or any thing more, than that we are left ignorant of the way, how he foreknowes them. And how small is the inconvenience of acknowledging that? Yea and how manifest the absurdity of not acknowledging the like, in many cases? Since nothing is more certain, than that God doth many ⟨p. 48⟩things besides, whereof the manner, how he does them, we can neither explicate nor understand! For neither is it difficult to assign instances, more than enough, of actions done by our selves, of the manner whereof, we can give no distinct account, as those of vision, intellection, with sundry other.