A64002:1756
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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and all for want of grace supernatural, which God is not bound to bestow on any. All sides confess that Divine concourse is necessary to every act, as without which the creature cannot move. For in God we move, as well as in him we live, and in him we have our being. And about this concourse a question is made, to wit, Whether God's influence be only into the act, and that upon condition, modo nos velimus, provided that we will, is as absurd and contradictious a conceit, as can be devised; seeing the greatest question is concerning the act of willing: And is it possible that God shall work this act upon condition that it be wrought by us? why, if it be wrought by us, what need is there of God's working it? Can the same act be the condition of it self, and so both before and after it self? To avoid this precipice others fly to God's prescience, that at such an instant man will produce such an act of will, provided that God will produce it, which is worse then the former. For hereby each Agent's operation ⟨p. 124⟩[…] ⟨p. 125⟩[…] ⟨p. 126⟩is made the condition of the other, whence no operation at all can proceed. Then again a thing is feigned to be foreseen by God as future, which hath no cause of the futurition thereof, being in it's own nature merely possible, that is no more future indeed, then not future: And nothing but the will and decree of God can make it pass out of the condition of a thing merely possible into the condition of a thing future, as is made manifest by invincible reason. Therefore we say the influence of God necessarily required to every action, is made into the will it self moving it agreeably to the nature thereof, to do whatsoever it doth, not voluntarily only, but freely also; taking liberty aright and as it ought to be taken, that is in the choice of means tending to an end, whether that end be a man's right end or no. For it is confessed by Moralists that the motion of the will towards it's congruous end, is natural and necessary, not free. But this brave Gentleman carrieth himself aloft, and superciliously despising to enter into any of these lists of argumentation; and as if the matter were conclusum contra Manichaeos, confidently supposeth, without all proof, that we maintain that all humane actions come to pass by absolute necessity: