o8 Ofthe Nature, &nozvledge, Will quire. But zeal makethTome men deride that God íhoulld be laid to be no more the caufe of finning ; and they cannot allow him the skill of every dull Artificer, or at least a will to ufe it, without willing and caufing the thing whichhe forbiddeth. 2. And the word piling] fignifieth, fometime ufing by motion, as i do my pen; and fometimeby ordination, and adjoyning pine concuufe, or ht. ting the receptivity of the patient to the effet as aforesaid ; as we ufe; wind, water, dogs, hawks : Thus only finners by finning are Gods ufed ìnflruments : fuppofing his natural concurfeand fupport. And they are not his bJtruments thus neither in the fame fence as thefe creatures are ours : For their fterccnefi, craft, inclination, aïtion, is good, and we do and may will it for our ends : But fin is not good; And therefore God willeth not it at all, but only the confequent of ir, or of -- fed : And that i"ffetl is not Good, as it is the end of fin, but as God fettéth in, and caufeth the fame effect which a finner caufeth ( as in se- aeration per concubitum illicitum.) But when God willeth and caufeth the effet, and forefeeth and permitteth the finful Volition and at, which concurrethto that effed, fuch a fin is improperly called his ufed is:Jtru. ment or medium, but properly is none. 633. To Gibieufand others Paying that God ateth not by fin as an instrument, and willeth it riot, but theeffects ; he anfwereth that Its ab- furd, becaufe the fiat it fell iscafligátory, and hash fuch like . effets and therefore God need not will thateffet as after ir. But all this is from the fore-noted confufon : It is not only the.diflant effet, but the very im- mediate effecl, which is the Alt it fell at recipitur in palò, which God fometime is faid to will. As he willed that 7n6s Cattle were taken 'away, and that Chrift were killed, and that ititalchm Bare be cut off, and that Paul be fcourged, and fmitten on the mouth, and that the Apofiles were¿ ofr imprifoned, 6,e. And yet God only forefeeth but willeth not that will and atof the agent, whichhe forbiddeth. r 634. And here note, that when the name of the Effet or Paffiotá' connoteth the finfulnefs of the Alt, then it is lefs meet to fay that God willeth it As to fay that he willeth that we be perfecuted, murdered, flasodered, belyed, &c. But if any will fo fpeak, theymuff mean only the Paffion, as dillind from the anion: And then thedifferenceis but iz;apo- do logreendi. 635. Tothofe that objet that thus he maketh God the chief author of fin, the effectbeingmore to be afcribed to the Principal Caufe than to the instrument, he firftill- applyeth fome frivolous diftinctions, and inílanceth thus : [The hangmanas the pages inflrament hangeth a man in malice or revenge: Ergo, the fudge much more, in revenge: Non fequitar. ] Put- ting in Revenge which is but a caufe, as if it had been the Effect, which was in queftion. And thus [TheSword that killeth a man is not culpable: ergo, nor the Piker: Non fequitar.] As if the queftion had been of the Negation of an effect, andnot of the pofition of it. - And thus [If two fervants role aflone one being commanded and one forbidden, one beingfather to the other ; The Son (forbidden) roleth it unlawfully : ergo, the father (commanded) much more : non fequitur.] Refp. r. As if theat of the Father and the Son were the fame alt, be- caufe the effet is the fame, which is notorioufly falle : unlefs de fpeeie. a. Whofe Inftrument doyou fuppofe the son to be r If the Fathers, it is becaufe the Father commanded him contrary to the Mailer ; And if fo, the argument is. good: TheSons adwas a fault who obeyed : ergo, the fathers more
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