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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.
1. In the Text it self there is not a tittle of such a Condition of Non-resistency, nor of such a supernatural Power of Conversion; nay on the contrary, in stead of the Condition of Non-resistency, it speaks of a stony heart (which is a Principle of Resistency) to be removed; instead of a supernatural power of Conversion, it implies an old heart) which is powerless in the things of God) to be made new.
2. If God promise to do these things so as men, furnished with supernatural power of Conversion, do not resist, then there is such a supernatural power in men before these things be wrought in them, that is, before there be a new or soft Heart, whilst the Heart is old and stony, there is such a supernatural power in them; which assertion is, as I take it,
2. If God promise to do these things so as men, furnished with supernatural power of Conversion, do not resist, then there is such a supernatural power in men before these things be wrought in them, that is, before there be a new or soft Heart, whilest the Heart is old and stony, there is such a supernatural power in them; which assertion is, as I take it,
1. Against Scripture; that divides all men into two ranks, they are clean or unclean, new creatures or old, spiritual men born of the spirit, or natural men born of the flesh; but this Assertion ushers in a middle sort of men such as hang by a posse converter between Nature and Grace; with the natural man they have an old stony Heart, and with the spiritual man they have a new supernatural Power; in the frame of their Heart they are no better than natural, and in their supernatural Power they are little less than spiritual.