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 Devil could not say in truth, as the Lord did to David, I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lye with thy wives in the sight of the sun. Nor as he said to Jeroboam, Behold I will rent the kingdom out of the hands of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee. Nay the very permission of sin so as whereby it shall infallibly come to pass, is not in the power of any creature, but in God alone. And shall it follow, that because God doth more, both as touching the act it self, and touching the sinful condition of it, then any creature can do, therefore God is the Author of sin? whereas when God moves a man or carrieth him on to any good moral works, whether in doing that which is virtuous, or abstaining from that which is vicious, this man shall certainly sin, though not in so great a degree, unless God be pleased over and above to regenerate him, and to bestow faith, and love on him, for as much as in this case, though he do an act virtuous, yet shall he not do it in a gracious manner. & though he do abstain from an act vicious yet he shall not abstain from it in a gracious manner. Let this man therefore proceed, & maintain (if he thinks good) that except God doth bestow the spirit of regeneration upon all and every one throughout the world, he is the Author of sin, not only when he moves them to such acts which are evil, but also when he moves them to the doing of such as are virtuous, or to the abstaining from those that are vicious. As for his phrases no wise man will regard them, but only such as are content to feed on husks for want of better food. As, when he talks of motion uncontrollable, which makes a noise, as if men's wills would control his motion, but cannot: whereas God as the first mover moves the creature most congruously unto his nature; without which motion of his the creature could not move at all. The like noises makes the phrase immutable decree; as empty things many times give the greatest sound: whereas by virtue of God's immutable decree it is, that it cannot otherwise be; then that as necessary things cannot but come to pass necessarily; so contingent things cannot but come to pass contingently, and the free actions of men freely. But by the way he manifest's how he licks his lips, at a Mutable decree of God, even of that God with whom, as St.

The Devill could not say in truth, as the Lord did to David, I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them to thy neighbour, and he shall lye with thy wives in the sight of the sunne. Nor as he said to Ieroboam, Behold I will rent the kingdome out of the hands of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee. Nay the very permissiō of sin so as whereby it shall infallibly come to passe, is not in the power of any creature, but in God alone. And shall it follow, that because God doth more, both as touching the act it selfe, and touching the sinfull condition of it, then any creature can doe, therefore God is the Authour of sinne? whereas when God moves a man or carrieth him on to any good morall workes, whether in doing that which is vertuous, or abstaining from that which is vitious, this man shall certainely sinne, though not in so great a degree, unlesse God be pleased over and above to regenerate him, and to bestow faith, and love on him, for as much as in this case, though he doe an act vertuous, yet shall he not doe it in a gracious māner. & though he doe abstaine frō an act vitious yet he shall not abstaine frō it in a gracious manner. Let this man therefore proceed, & maintaine (if he thinks good) that except God doth bestow the spirit of regeneration upon all and every one throughout the world, he is the Authour of sinne, not only when he moves them to such acts which are evill, but also when he moves them to the doing of such as are vertuous, or to the abstaining from those that are vitious. As for his phrases noe wise man will regard them, but only such as are content to feed on huskes for want of better food. As, when he talkes of motion uncontroulable, which makes a noise, as if men's wills would controule his motion, but cannot: whereas God as the first mover moves the creature most congruously unto his nature; without which motion of his the creature could not move at all. The like noyses makes the phrase immutable decree; as empty things many times give the greatest sound: whereas by vertue of God's immutable decree it is, that it cannot otherwise be; then that as necessary things cannot but come to passe necessarily; so contingent things cannot but come to passe contingently, and the free actions of men freely. But by the way he manifest's how he licks his lips, at a Mutable decree of God, even of that God with whom, as St.