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A discourse of divine providence I. In general
A discourse of divine providence I. In general: that there is a providence exercised by God in the world. II. In particular: how all Gods providences in the world, are in order to the good of his people. By the late learned divine Stephen Charnock, B.D. sometime fellow of New-College in Oxon.A discourse of divine providence I. In general: that there is a providence exercised by God in the world. II. In particular: how all Gods providences in the world, are in order to the good of his people. By the late learned divine Stephen Charnock, B.D. sometime fellow of New-Colledg in Oxon.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Thomas Cockerill, 1684
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2. God doth not infuse the lust or excite it, though he doth present the object about which the lust is exercised. God delivered up Christ to the Jews, he presented him to them; but never commanded them to crucify him, nor infused that malice into them, nor quickened it; but he seeing such a frame, withdrew his restraining grace, and left them to the conduct of their own witiated wills. All the corruption in the World ariseth from lust in us, not from the object which God in his providence presents to us. 2 Pet. 1.4 the corruption that is in the World through lust. The Creature is from God, but the abuse of it from corruption. God created the grape, and filled the Wine with a sprightliness; but he doth never infuse a drunken frame into a man, or excite it. Providence presents us with the Wine, but the precept is to use it soberly. Can God be blamed, if that which is good in it self, be turned into ⟨p. 73⟩Poison by others? No more than the flower can be called a criminal, because the Spiders nature turns that into venom which is sweet in it self. Man hath such a nature, not from Creation, wherein God is positive; but from corruption, wherein God is permissive. Providence brings a man into such a condition of poverty, but it doth not encourage his stubbornness and impatience. There is no necessity upon thee from God to exercise thy sin under affliction, when others under the same exercise their graces. The Rod makes the Child smart, but it is its own stubbornness makes it curse. In short, though it be by Gods permission that we can do evil, yet it is not by his inspiration that we will to do evil, that is wholly from our selves.
2. God doth not infuse the lust or excite it, though he doth present the object about which the lust is exercised. God delivered up Christ to the Jews, he presented him to them; but never commanded them to crucifie him, nor infused that malice into them, nor quickned it; but he seeing such a frame, withdrew his restraining grace, and left them to the conduct of their own witiated wills. All the corruption in the World ariseth from lust in us, not from the object which God in his providence presents to us. 2 Pet. 1.4 the corruption that is in the World through lust. The Creature is from God, but the abuse of it from corruption. God created the grape, and filled the Wine with a sprightliness; but he doth never infuse a drunken frame into a man, or excite it. Providence presents us with the Wine, but the precept is to use it soberly. Can God be blamed, if that which is good in it self, be turned into