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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
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Diverse Heathen Philosophers I have found censured for denying of Gods Prescience or foreknowledge, as Cicero by Austin lib. 5. De Civ. Dei cap. 9. Seneca by Aureolus 1. distin. 38. Aristotle by Vasquez and others. But that Christian Divines either ancient or modern, (unless you will appropriate that name unto Socinians) are so unanimous in impugning of Gods foreknowledge, is great news unto me, and not only unto me, but unto all others, I believe, that have read any thing in either ancient, or Modern Divinity. Hierome in his third book Adversus Pelagianos, teacheth (as Franciscus Amicus informs me) that he who takes away Prescience from God, takes away the Godhead: Eum qui a Deo praescientiam tollit, divinitatem tollere. As for Austin, whom you quote in the Margin against this Prescience of God; let any one read that place but now quoted. Lib. 5. De Civ. Dei. cap. 9. and he must needs confess, that he is a zealous Assertor of Gods foreknowledge against Cicero, who opposeth it in favour of the liberty of mans will. And so saith Austin. Dumb vult facere homines liberos, facit sacrilegos: multò sunt autem tolerabiliores (saith he) qui vel sydera fata constituunt, quam iste, qui tollit praescientiam futurorum. Nam & consiteri esse Deum, & negare praescium futurorum, apertissima insania est. They who make the stars the fates of men, are more tolerable then he, who taketh away the foreknowledge of things to come. For to confess that there is a God, & to deny him to be foreknowing of things future, is a most open madness. And again in the same place. Sed quoquomodo se habent tortuosissimae concertationes, & disputations Philosophorum; nos ut confitemur summum, & ⟨p. 222⟩