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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.
Saint Austin on those words, Deleantur de libro viventium, & cum justis non scribantur, Psal. 69. 28. raises an Objection, si homo dixit, Quod scripsi, scripsi, Deus quemquam scribit & delet? quomodo isti inde delentur, ubi nunquam scripti sunt? To which he answers, Hoc dictum est secundùm spem ipsorum, quia ibi se scriptos putabant. Quid est, deleantur de libro viventium? & ipsis constet non illos ibi esse. Deleantur ergo secundùm spem ipsorum, secundùm autem aequitatem tuam non scribantur. In a word; whatsoever God doth in his Decrees is immutably the same, his Decrees are as ⟨p. 17⟩Mountains of Brass, Zach. 6. 1. unremovable by any Creature, because situate in the Eternal Will. The strength or eternity of Israel will not lye or repent, 2 Sam. 15. 29. If God's Time cannot lye, but will infallibly show forth the Verity of his Promises and Prophecies, surely God's Eternity cannot lye, wherein he decrees and knows all. The World is full of Vicissitudes, Matter is in a perpetual Flux, the Glass of Time is running out, and [Greek or Hebrew], the Wheel of Nature is running round: but all the while, God's Will is immovable; it doth not roll about with the Heavens, rise or set with the Sun, or ebb and flow with the Sea; but sits King for ever and ever upon the Throne of its own Immobility. Apud te, Domine, rerum omnium instabilium stant causae, & rerum omnium 1mutabilium immutabiles manent origins, & omnium irrationalium & temporalium sempiternae vivunt rations. Now besides what hath been said out of Scripture, to prove the Immutability of his Decrees, these Reasons may be offered.
Saint Austin on those words, Deleantur de libro viventium, & cum justis non scribantur, Psal. 69. 28. raises an Objection, si homo dixit, Quod scripsi, scripsi, Deus quemquam scribit & delet? quomodo isti inde delentur, ubi nunquam scripti sunt? To which he answers, Hoc dictum est secundùm spem ipsorum, quia ibi se scriptos putabant. Quid est, deleantur de libro viventium? & ipsis constet non illos ibi esse. Deleantur ergo secundùm spem ipsorum, secundùm autem aequitatem tuam non scribantur. In a word; whatsoever God doth in his Decrees is immutably the same, his Decrees are as