A64002:1626
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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Sect. 5.
That God is the Author of men's salvation and conversion, all sides grant; and yet he doth no more in the procuring them then these men report him to do in the Reprobates impenitency and damnation The 1salvation and conversion of the Elect, say they, he hath absolutely and antecedently, without the foresight of any deserving of theirs, resolved upon, and by irresistible means in their several generations, draweth them to believe, repent, and endure to the end, that so they might be saved, and his absolute decree accomplished. On the other side, the damnation, the sins, and the final impenitency of Reprobates, he hath of his alone will and pleasure peremptorily decreed; this his decree he executeth in time drawing them on by his unconquerable power and providence from sin to sin, till they have made up their measure, and in the end have inflicted on them that eternal vengeance, which he had provided for them. What difference is here in the course which God taketh for the conversion and salvation of the Elect, and the obduration and damnation of the Reprobates? And therefore what hindereth but that God (by their grounds) may as truly be styled the prime cause and Author of the sins of the one, as of the conversion of the other? The Fathers thought it a plain case; and therefore they did make sin an Object of prescience, and not predestination and bent the most of those arguments by with they refuted this foul assertion, against an absolute, irresistible and necessitating decree. as I could easily show, but that I fear to be over long. Only I will cite some few of those Author's words whom the learned & reverend Bishop hath alleged in favour and for the defence of the Predestinarians, and the maintainers of Gotteschalk's opinion The Church of Lyons in their answer to the positions of Johannes Scotus, which he framed against Gotteschalke hath these words, Whosoever saith, that God hath laid a constraint, or necessity of sinning upon any man, he doth manifestly and fearfully blaspheme God, in as much as he maketh him, by affirming that of him to be the very Author of sin. Remigius Arch. Bishop of that Church explaining the Churches opinion in that point of prescience and predestination in seven several rules; in the fifth of those rules, he hath these words to the same purpose.