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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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DR Twice doth grant, that Gods permission in a complicate notion, as it takes in other acts of Gods providence, doth infer the things permitted: And what he saith of Gods actual permission in time, is appliable unto his permissive decrees before all time; for as his workings are agreeable unto his effective, so his permissions are suitable unto his permissive decrees. But now that he any where affirmeth, that the decrees of God, which are simply, purely, and barely permissive, 1or that the bare, single, and sole permission of God, do import any necessity at all of the perpetration, or coming to pass, of what is only so decreed, and permitted, I utterly deny. And if you had been so well versed in D. Twice, as it was fit for him, that undertakes a refutation of him, you would never have charged him with that, which he, in a whole digression, professedly impugneth; for which, you may see, how he is taxed (though very modestly) by M. Rutherford, in a Scholastical disputation of his, De Divinâ providentiâ cap. 8. D. Twice in the third Digression of the second Book of his Vindiciae &c. examineth that proposition of Perkins: Quod Deus non impedit, ideo evenit, quia Deus non impedit. That which God doth not hinder, doth therefore come to pass, because God doth not hinder it, (i.) because he doth permit it: where he not only professeth his dislike of it, but also refutes it. This Section then might very well have been spared for in it you fight but with your own shadow, and do not at all oppose the opinion of D. Twice, who fully accords with you in this particular; That Gods simple and sole permissions, and consequently his decrees, that are simply, purely, and barely permissive, are not illative of those things which are only so decreed, and permitted.
DR Twisse doth grant, that Gods permission in a complicate notion, as it takes in other acts of Gods providence, doth inferre the things permitted: And what he saith of Gods actuall permission in time, is applyable unto his permissive decrees before all time; for as his workings are agreeable unto his effective, so his permissions are suitable unto his permissive decrees. But now that he any where affirmeth, that the decrees of God, which are simply, purely, and barely permissive,