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The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute…The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute…
The riches of Gods love unto the vessels of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessels of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entitled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two books, the first being a refutation of the said book, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hord's discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceals his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twice ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twice from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeans ...The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... in two bookes, the first being a refutation of the said booke, as it was presented in manuscript by Mr Hord unto Sir Nath. Rich., the second being an examination of certain passages inserted into M. Hords discourse (formerly answered) by an author that conceales his name, but was supposed to be Mr Mason ... / by ... William Twisse ... ; whereunto are annexed two tractates of the same author in answer unto D.H. ... ; together with a vindication of D. Twisse from the exceptions of Mr John Goodwin in his Redemption redeemed, by Henry Jeanes ...
Oxford: printed by L.L. and H.H. for Tho. Robinson, 1653
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TWICE Consideration.
TWISSE Consideration.
TO talk of the decrees divine as things evitable or inevitable, is very absurd: for things denominated evitable or inevitable are only things to come, not yet existent; but such are not decrees divine, they are as everlasting as God himself without any beginning of duration. As for the things decreed by God, they are of a double nature. For God hath decreed some things to come to pass necessarily, other things to come to pass contingently. Now those things that come to pass contingently do so come to pass (and that by the decree of God) as joined with a possibility not to come to pass, and consequently to come to pass so as joined with a possibility to be avoided. Such are Salvation and damnation in as much as God hath annexed these as rewards, unto final perseverance in faith and repentance, the one; unto final perseverance in sin unrepented of, the other. This is the undeclinable law of Gods decree, that, whosoever believes shall be Saved 1and whosoever believes not shall be damned. But we do not say, that this is the whole decree of predestination and Reprobation, with the Remonstrants, and with this Author. But that there is another decree of God, the effect whereof is as undeniable, as the effect of the former, which this Author dissembleth throughout: and the effect of this decree is not conditional like unto the effects of the former decree, but absolute. And it is the more strange that this Author should so much insist upon the effects of the former, & nothing at all on this: whereas the effects of the former nothing at all serve his turn, but through mere confusion: for he carieth the matter so as if we maintained that God doth decree to dispense Salvation and damnation absolutely according to the mere pleasure of his will, and not conditionally as he finds his creatures either dying in faith or dying in sin, which is most untrue. And yet his usual course to relieve himself in the case of impertinency and extravagancy is to fly to the effects of the other decree which we willingly confess to be absolute; yet hath he no appetite to deal directly in the discussing thereof. Now we profess that