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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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not only by evidence of Philosophical inquisition after the cause thereof, in that question, Utrum Aegyptus sit impluviata? but by evidence out of Gods word. Deut. 11. 10, 11, 12. The land whether thou goest to possess, is not as the Land of Egypt, from whence ye came, 1where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot as a garden of herbs; but the land whither ye go to possess it, is a land of mountains and valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven. This Land doth the Lord your God care for; the eyes of the Lord thy God are upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year. Yet had they fruitful seasons by the inundation of Nilus; but this was not so apt to dispose them, to take notice of a divine providence, as the common course of fructifying the Land by rain. But yet the whole world in the frame thereof, was sufficient evidence of the Eternal power and Godhead. Rom. 1. 20. and Psal. 19. 1. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handy work. And albeit Aristotle, the greatest of Philosophers, maintained the eternity thereof without beginning; yet he confesseth ingeniously in his Book De coelo, that all that went before him maintained mundum genitum esse; neither was his discourse of power to raze out that natural instinct hereof, which seems to be graven in the hearts of men, and was the chief ground of that universal acknowledgement of a divine power supreme. Now as God made himself known by his works so I nothing doubt but herewithall it was their duty to know him, and according to their knowledge to serve him and glorify him, in acknowledgement of his glorious nature, so far as they took notice of it; But as for a rule whereby they should worship him, I know none that God had given them, or that they could gather from contemplation of the creatures. And surely the knowledge of God, as a Creator only, is nothing sufficient to salvation; but the knowledge of him as a redeemer: And therefore seeing the World by wisdom knew not God in the wisdom of God, it pleased God by the foolishness of Preaching to save them that believe. 1 Cor. 1. 21. And the Gentiles are set forth unto us in Scripture, as such who knew not God. 1 Thes 4. 5.