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An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of…
An abridgement of the whole body of divinity extracted from the learned works of that ever-famous and reverend divine, Mr. William Perkins / by Tho. Nicols.
London: printed by W.B. for Will. Hope, 1654
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.
This first, and principal cause doth not take away freedom of will in Election; Nor the Nature and property of second causes; but it bringeth them into a certain order; and it directeth them to their determinate ends, and hereupon the effects, or events of things are either, contingent, or Necessary.—
—Even as the Nature of the second cause is; And thus Christ according to his Fathers Decree, died necessarily, (as Act. 17. 3.) But yet willingly. Joh. 10. 18.
And if we respect the temperature of Christs body, he might have prolonged his life, and therefore in this regard he may be said to have died contingently.
Gods foreknowledge is conjoined with his Decree; and in regard of us it is before his Decree, but not in regard of God.
Gods foreknowledge is conjoyned with his Decree; and in regard of us it is before his Decree, but not in regard of God.