and Decrees of qod, &c. merated before : which is part ofGibieufs andGail. Camerarius scot.mean- ing by their fervato ordinefinis: though I think that Annatus cloth not unjuf:ly accufe Gibieuf of confufion and unskilfulnefs in the managingof that matter. ) 532. IL It is certain that asMoti vel Aïlio is quidNaturale, it is of God as the firft Caufe of Nature : *And fo when a firmer atteth, it is not without this Univerfal firft Caule : Whether God do it only,as Duran- dux thought, by the meet continuation of the nature of all things, Active and Mobile, .or by any fuperadded concurfe betides, is nothing to our pre- fent bufinefs ; whichonly fheweth that God is theCaufe. 533. I I I. It is certain that Governing Providence by doinggood cloth fec before men that which they make an occafion of all their evil : Every thing is turned bito fin bylinnets, t and to the unclean all things are unclean; through the uncleannefs of their own minds and confciences : As to the pure and holy all things are pureand fandified. Bad ftomachs corrupt the wholfotneft food. All Gods mercies are abufed to fin. 534. It is certain that God fore-knew this : And yet that he is no tray obliged to deny men life , or take it away , left they abufe it, or deny men all thofe mercies, Or remove them, which he forefeeth that they will turn to fin. 535. IV. It is certain that God often concurreth to the canting ofthe very fame effl which fin á110 caufeth ; and fo is as a concaufe of it with fin : And this effect is fo near to theAd of fin, as that the fin it felf is oft called by its nameas if it were its neareft matter ( which it is not. ) And this is the occafion ofthe Great miftake ofmen in this cafe, that can- no diflinguifh. Ofwhich moreanon in theinftances. 536. V. And it is certain, that God as the Governour of the 'World, doth do much good by the occafion of mens fin. But this is not to turn the fin it felf into good. 537. V I. And to thefe five operationsofGod, I.add, as to his Volitions; that all thiswhich he doth, he willeth ordecreeth to do, Andhe bathno contrary will at all. 538, But that whichwe deny is, that We is anyproper caufe ofthe fin it fell, efficient or deficient, culpable or not culpable, Phyfcal or Moral For theopening of whichwe mull enquire what fin' is, and what goeth to its being or conflitretion. 539. All grant thatGod is our. Ruler by aLaw, and alfo our ultimate End as he is optimus &Amabilifmur, and thathe is our abfolute owner And that as rational free agents we that are his own, are alfo his subjeUs and Beneficiaries, and made capable of Loving him as our ultimate end, and of obeying his Laws : And that fin is our Difobedience to thefeLaws; with ourdenying God our felves as his Own, and withholding or perverting the Love which we owe him as our End. 540. As Logick hath confounded us in moft other cafes by arbitrary unfuitabie fecond notions ( making us a Shoo not meet for the Foot, ) fo thatit's eafier to know Things without thofe unfit notions than with them ; fo hath it done here. Men may more eafily knowwhat fink and what it is todifobey a Lam, and . that eitherby doing what we Ihould note or by not doing what we are commanded, than they can know by what Logical orMetaphyfical name it fhould be called : Whether a privation, or a relation, an a; or no atl, 6e. But it is not only for Logicians that God made his Laws ; nor is it only a Metaphyfical Confcience that will accufe men or condemnthem, and torment-them for their fin. 54X. Nd * Vid. Gregor. Arun. to a. d. aß: q. a. a. 3. ad arg. 8. & S. whofè judgement many School, men follow vafgrei thus abbreviaieth and reportethl»m inI Thu: q. u3. d. 99: c.4. f Meo tinnem nei ordine carafe priorem effe co-operation &determination no/tra iü operibus bonds, or in ope, 'ions peccati , etiam fenun= dam Jubitantiam dáfeclufa madida priorem effe no [era determinationem : & ohm ordine bet inter fie comparait in nternitat4 Ex quo inferunt ne' nm prefrnide opera bona ante determinetioliem no- ftram allo modo previjam; fed mala fecundum fiebftan- main nequaquam , aid precognita determinations mitre voluntatin. Vid. Marfil. in r.q. 4$e or. 2. poft 4. concluf. t Titus 1.55, ló:.
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