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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
The Answer to the Additions. › Part 1 › Section 6: The 6. Sect:
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To this assenteth Sir Fran•s Bacon in his Colours of good and evil; where against this Mathematical position (as he calls it) that there is no proportion between something and nothing, and that the before the 1degree of privation […] eater then the degree of diminution; he excepteth that it is fal•e in sundry cases, and among the est in […]; namely, when the degree o• diminution is more ••••tive then the degree of privation In this case at […] […] much better then a diminution. Hence the […] forms of speech. Better eye out l•e […] Make or mar &c Some evils o• pains (perhaps) either for their lightness because they may be well end •e•; or for their […] because they are quickly over; are less: hen resolution into nothing And a man had better for a wh••• […] them, then loose […] to be ••d of them: because his being may afford […] presently, or afterward such and •o many […] things, as will more then recompense […] pain•s. But when his pains a•• so many and violent, […] no other good then a poor being, or to •inch him, that he cannot enjoy or Joy in the good• that remain, it were a thousand times better for him to have no being; and such a•e the pains of […] ▪ which for the• greatness are infinite, producing many miserable weepings and waitings & ••••ning of teeth all symptoms of intolerable griefs, and for their •eng•• eternal. The worm never eth, the fic is never quenched but the breath of the Lord as a river ofbr stone doth kindle it forever. And therefore it is incomparably better to cease to be, then to live in thse torments, which cannot be equalled by any good, which a being can make us capable of, much less by that poor little […] good, which is all the good the damned enjoy in hell.