The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

Ans. Socinians, Arminians, yea Pagans, and all enemies to Christian Religion, are burdened with the same seeming reason: For if God, or their gods may hinder wickedness, and yet do not hinder it, they bring themselves, or the true God, that they must be necessitated to torment the sinners.

Ans. Socinians, Arminians, yea Pagans, and all enemies to Christian Religion, are burdened with the same seeming reason: For if God, or their gods may hinder wickednesse, and yet do not hinder it, they bring themselves, or the true God, that they must be necessitated to torment the sinners.

2. There be reasons unanswerable, why if we yield (and it is a shame to deny) that God is able to hinder sin to enter in the world, or that he is not infinitely wise,¹ and so that he hath not most weighty reasons why he suffers sin to be: As 1. if sin come freely in the world without the will of God, either the Lords dominion over sin must be none at all; or the creatures dominion of free-will must be dependent upon the dominion of grace and Sovereignty. 2. The out-goings of free-grace must eternally be hid, if sin had never been. As there had been no field for the expressions and blossoms of eternal flourishing revenging justice: As also, the creatures arms are short, and could not reach the eminent degree of manifesting the glory of free-grace and pardoning mercy, but the Lord aimed at this. And 1. the relation of a Saviour and a sinner, of the Physician and the sick must be known; Now a Physician hath not relation actual to all sick, all the world over, but only to his own patients, his own sick ones, who by Covenant, feeling their ⟨p. 286⟩[…] ⟨p. 287⟩[…] ⟨p. 288⟩danger,