gg Ofthe Nature, .(nonledge, Will Act of fin is not imputable to God: Ifhebe nor; then every fin is like our not making of aSun, or Moon, orWorld : whichif it be a culpable defecî) they makeGod the firlt deficient. 5 5.5 He that would fee more of thisqúeftion of the effence of fin, may read Rada lib. 2. contr. 16. ( who firft ingenuoufly confeffeth 'that The. andScotus differ but inwords and not in fence, and then layethdown eleven conclufions of little ufe. ) And Marius scriboniuscofmo. dip.18. Scotusin a. el. 37. Bonavent.in 2.d.35. dui,. 6. Henric..Quodl. I. qu.25. ,Amain. Moral; trial. 3. cap. 17. Richard. in 2. d. 34. ar. I. qu. 7. Alex.Alenf. 2. q.94. mend,. 2. Durand. 2. dif. 31, q. 2. Medin. 12. q. 71. ar. 6. SpeciallyVafquez 12. difp. 95. trip. 9. Gail. Cameral'. Scot. Difput. Pbilof. Part. I. Mor. q. 3. peg. 162, &c. Argent.in i. d.35 q. I.ar.2.GabrielBiel 2. d. 36. q. unica. Valent. 1.2.61. z. q.14.p. 3, &C. Suarez I. 2. traci. de act. hum. d. z. jai. 2. Azor. li. 4. c. 24. Tanner.1. 2. difp. 2. q. 5. dub. 2. b 3. &difp, 4. q.1. dub. I. Vega in Trident. 6.e. 39. & Ii.14.. c. 13. s It is not only tr.Tmife corks/2. 1. 3. q. IO. 6. Cajet. Zumel. Curiel, b alias in I. 2. q. 19. ar. 4, after confted) that I ar. 6. And who is ufually founder thanmolt of them, Lombard fuppofeth fin to be wit- bq. . y ledofGod asconducible himfelfDift. 35. & Ripaldà.opening him and citing others dift. 34i 35. to the perfection of the But the ordinary Chriftian that underftandethbut what Difobedience fig- World, but evenRuin, the Jelbite de rrovid. nifieth, needethnone of them all. mbái lain ¡feu that M=nus 556. *Though the five adsof God forementionedabout fin, are as far perfeeteu evafafret Mandas as we need to go, to the common Endswhich we agree in, yetmany ob- i nulla permitterentur pec- jettions are made againft this much as not fufficient, but God muff have eata ; nane autem eva ¡t a greater hand in .fin : And I. They obje&, that tomake God but an per a od mot noto- vum : andcitethAgnin. ZfniverfalCaufe, is to put fomething in being, viz. the Aét in fpecie Atexand. Albert. nori?v' march, which God is not the Caufe of; And fo, 1. To make Him idle Richard, trfiid. cant. Ferrar. Mall. for the and unadive as . tothat :' 2. To'deifie man by making hima firft Caufe of fame. Eut r. An oeca- that moral fpecies. Towhich I- fhall lay down fuch anfwers as I think lion is no caufe nor me- dimn,asfach,andthere- will fatisfie the,confderate,to this Objedtion which is indeed their All: forenever the more wil- ButI am forry that the (dbjectoccafioneth me to repeat what I Paidbefore. l2. ed, But I if t have were before true. I . Remember that even an Ali in genere is not a fubflánce ; tha 55% briefly confuted the And that the moral fpecification is lets as to natural entity than it ; in- Schootmen on both fides deed making noaddition of Entity to it, aswas chewed. AndDr. Twits about this queflton, via`. Particular Creatures affertéth , that this moral fpccifieation is not a proper fpecificatioio would be to themfelves of a6ts. butwhatever pobetter,were thereno fin: al- 5 5 ó.. s. Note thatfew dare fay, that God is not Able to make a free _ tetatioàswere made by agent with Power to choofe or refute without Gods further predetermining God, the Univerfe would remotion. Acid ifGod can do it, we have no reafontodebafe hiswork, be neither worfe nor P better than it is, as to and think he did not. that proper Goodnefs 559, 3. Note, that for God to make a felfdetermining agent' that :which. mutt abfolutely denominate it : For the Mall adwithout his predetermination, is but to put forth his own Rive Goodnefsofall creatures Power with limitation or fufpenfion, that is, To Will andAd or Ope-, is to be conform to the rate, fo far and no further. Creators Will, which is > the denominating ; mea- 5 60.: 4. And cote, that this reftri&ion of the Divine operation is not fo they are, and fo they from any finitenefs of his power, as if he coulddo no more, but from the would be, were they al- fieedom of his will, and the Conduét of his wifdom, who feeth it good to reced Butfinisdifform do no . andis of conform in, and not to, his =, >561. S Above all note, that as all Divines agree, that God dothnot A ComplacenceorEfficient adultimum .pf fie, asnatural .agents do, fo the truth is molt evident in the Will. aleargueth, Had ttitermr of eht,warld, and the effects of his Power: ForGod doth not had been no fin, there no inch exec- make äs manymen or other creatures. as he could do-: He doth notmake cite of Liberty, no Savi- every man as ftrong, orwife, orgood, or long-lived as he Coulddo : He Both our, &c. Anfm. And are ar Angels had not all dot make as he could do. Now all that is undone whichCod move every thin,a f f y do, this hadnil good , if .. God had willed s? ^ to
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