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Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
Conscience with the power and cases thereof Divided into V. books. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latin into English, for more public benefit.Conscience with the power and cases thereof Devided into V. bookes. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latine into English, for more publique benefit.
Leiden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639Leyden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639
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.
2. Secondly, liberty also of election is formally in the will: that therefore any one doth yield obedience to God, or refuseth to do so, proceeds from the will.
3. Lastly, our obedience stands in our conformity to the ⟨p. 92⟩Will of God▪ and the disobedience, in our unconformity thereunto. Now our conformity with the Will of God is first and principally in our will, Apoc. 2. 6.
Qu. 2. What are those things which make an action to become not voluntary.
4. Ans. Nothing at all but either absolute violence of constraint, or chance which could not be foreseen, or prevented. And for such things as are done through absolute violence or mere chance, they have neither the nature of Obedience or sin. As if one should be forced to offer incense or bow the knee before an Idol, or should merely by chance kill another, Dut. 19. 56 10.