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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.
Object. 1. This Thesis of the Wills following the Understanding takes away the necessity of gracious Principles in the Will.
Object. 2. This Thesis overturns the Liberty of the Will.
1. This Thesis takes away the necessity of gracious Principles in the Will; what need of any there, seeing the Will is so good a follower?
As to this I shall answer two things.
1. This Thesis is so far from taking away the necessity of gracious Principles in the Will, that it discovers the way how those gracious Principles come to be wrought there. 'Tis in this Case between the Understanding and those gracious Principles, as 'tis between the beams of Light and the accompanying Heat: As Heat comes down from the Sun into the lower World in the