Assert. 13. There is a two-fold contradicting of the Lords will. One by way of replying, striving and challenging the Lord as doing unequally. This is condemned in the cited places, Rom. 9. 10. Isa. 45. 9. There is another humble contradicting in the woman of Canaan, Matth. 15. 26, 27. In wrestling Jacob, when the Lord says, Let me go, Gen. 32. 26. In Moses interceding, Exod. 32. 10, 11, 12. Yea when Christ commands the disciples to watch, and in order to watching citeth the Prophecy of Zechariah, c. 13. ⟨p. 318⟩who foretold that the flock should be scattered, and that they should sinfully forsake and deny their Master; he also charges them to contradict that permissive will and decree of God by which it was ordained that the Lord shall withdraw his influences from Peter and the rest of the disciples, that their sinful weakness might appear, therefore suppose the Lord say it's my decree and will to deny influences of grace to us in such particular actings, it's the Lords mind that we should humbly contradict that holy will and desire, and pray in the contrary: nor can the Lord command the reasonable creature to will, or not to desire saving grace; for so the holy Lord should command sin: yea to desire and pray for grace is our duty commanded in the Law, and by Christ, Matth. 6. 12, 13. Luke 11. 13. even when we pray that the Lords name may be hallowed, his kingdom come, and his will to be done by us and others cheerfully, Matth. 6. 9, 10, 11, 12. we desire to be kept from sin, and to have grace in all things to obey the Lord, though we know that he denies his saving influences to us and to many others.
Assert. 13. There is a two-fold contradicting of the Lords will. One by way of replying, striving and challenging the Lord as doing unequally. This is condemned in the cited places, Rom. 9. 10. Isa. 45. 9. There is another humble contradicting in the woman of Canaan, Matth. 15. 26, 27. In wrestling Jacob, when the Lord sayes, Let me goe, Gen. 32. 26. In Moses interceding, Exod. 32. 10, 11, 12. Yea when Christ commands the disciples to watch, and in order to watching citeth the Prophecie of Zechariah, c. 13. ⟨p. 318⟩who foretold that the flock should be scattered, and that they should sinfully forsake and deny their Master; he also charges them to contradict that permissive will and decree of God by which it was ordained that the Lord shall withdraw his influences from Peter and the rest of the disciples, that their sinful weaknesse might appear, therefore suppose the Lord say it's my decree and will to deny influences of grace to us in such particular actings, it's the Lords mind that we should humbly contradict that holy will and desire, and pray in the contrary: nor can the Lord command the reasonable creature to will, or not to desire saving grace; for so the holy Lord should command sin: yea to desire and pray for grace is our duty commanded in the Law, and by Christ, Matth. 6. 12, 13. Luke 11. 13. even when we pray that the Lords name may be hallowed, his kingdome come, and his will to be done by us and others cheerfully, Matth. 6. 9, 10, 11, 12. we desire to be kept from sin, and to have grace in all things to obey the Lord, though we know that he denies his saving influences to us and to many others.
- 1A two-fold contradicting of the Lords will.
