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The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…
The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire
London : printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, at the sign of the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, 1695
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.
2. In that the effects of wrath do not issue out from God's Will against the Sinner as they would have done. God who is infinite Holiness and essential Rectitude cannot but hate Sin, and in this hatred there is nothing less than a veil punire; and from thence condign punishment must have poured down upon the Sinner, if it had not by the Will of God been derived upon the Surety; but being derived thither, that righteous Will is satisfied, and the merited Wrath comes not forth against the Sinner, but instead thereof
2. In that the effects of wrath do not issue out from God's Will against the Sinner as they would have done. God who is infinite Holiness and essential Rectitude cannot but hate Sin, and in this hatred there is nothing less than a velle punire; and from thence condign punishment must have poured down upon the Sinner, if it had not by the Will of God been derived upon the Surety; but being derived thither, that righteous Will is satisfied, and the merited Wrath comes not forth against the Sinner, but instead thereof
3. Effects of Love break forth from God's Will towards him; Grace appears to all men, Tit. 2. 11. to all men in a gracious Reconciliability, and to Believers in actual Reconciliation; Believers are actually accepted or ingratiated in the beloved, Eph. 1. 6. and so shall all others as soon as they become Believers. Thus God is truly reconciled, yet without any change in his Will; only Sin doth not cry to that ⟨p. 245⟩Will against the Sinner, punishment doth not break out of that Will upon him, and Grace beams and sparkles out of that Will towards him; whilst in all these his Will remains unchangeable. Hence in Scripture we are rather said to be reconciled to God than God to us; not (as the Socinian would have it) because we only are reconciled to God, and not God to us; but because God is reconciled to us in such a way, as is not alterative, but perfective and completive of his unchangeable Will.