io6 Ofthe .kature, I(Çnovledge, Will SECT. XIX, ibe fame do¿ rine inRutherford deprovidentiaconfuted. 625. j Have been too long in confuting this Digreffion of Dr. Twiffé Thefumm of their opi- j which is contrary to thecommoneft doctrine of Proteflants; and nion. I think foundethnot well inChriftians .ears : The fumm of which is this: Nec omniNá negaert pot ,(1.. tNeither God nor Devil do will finas it is evil but God is thefirft willcr Yoluntatem Dei efje Cau- C jam rerum omnium quas of its exiftenee, becaufe it is in its own nature fumme 6. anice eonducibile fieri veto. Twist. Rhtheëf. de cee to tante aim the manifeftatiön of his Juftice and mercy : And willing and Loving . Prov. c. i 5. p. i86. being all one in God, he thus fingularlyLoveth She exiftenee of fin, above See alt tthheeir Re fo s for its contrary ( holinefs ) for thisend : And by , Predetermining premotion Gods ling its exifenccanfwer- ( which he much more largely writeth for elfewhere) he caufeth as the ed by Ruiu. de 1701. Dei firft total Caufeall that man Caufeth 5 But it is fin in man becaufe for- 26.26 p. 262, 263, bidden him, but not inGod, becaufenotforbidden him ; And therefore God Asalfo.aginft Gods pre. is not to be Paid to caufe fin ( though he caufeall that is caufed ) but to determmmg to the im- permit ermit it becaufe he caufeth it not in himfelf - nor is he tobecalleda Defci -, mediate materials peccati: ditp. 29. p. 390,' dac.ent moleofour omifons,becaufe he isnot bound to Actuate us ; but man di. 28, & 29, e,' 30, is to be cailed. theefficient and deficient-caufe, becaufe he is under an ob.- en. ufq; ád p. 580. g h ing Law, ThoughGod made that Law : And though he cart no more Asro t0e commonfayin g that God willeth not fm than a (tone ad without phyfical predetermination, nor forbear aFling as fin ; all men Will con-,, when fo adted, yet he is to be called free, becaufe he is actually willing thatneither do iroften r h . ( or his will Both a6ì) and becaufehe is predetermined by none but God.) ed man do fo. Paeans This is the true fence of their opinion as opened by themfelves, .I !hail ut fit ran intendatpetcatam , now briefl confider whatRutherford faith to the fame fence. quoadiUud quod eft far-. y f male in peccato, feu ratea- 626. cap. t 5 pag. I 86. ToAnnatus charging Twiffe as denying Gods tiam ron(ormitatu fed to ermiffiion of fin becaufe he maketh him the *clop ofthe A1í the -Li- tendit glum ut eft in ge- r 1 eremath, ¡quit Aure- berty and theProhibition, and to caufe is -not to Permit ; he bathno bet- in2.d. 42. a. 3. pag. ter anfwer than to fay, that Godcloth not permit theAl, nor the Evil of i will not conceala more the ÁFí, but he permitteth theevil nth and 2. To fay that the Domi- difficult argument than nicans and Jefuits hold the fame ashe. Which is to jell with holy things, mot ofthejrs,which may and not to argue. As if he Paid God made neither the foul nor the body, octant to others : God g canted (e.g. in Natha- and yet he made theman. What 1 is it ( as it's faid, that non animafed noel, Peter, drt.) this aft ' -"" of faith before Chnfr oft vita) fo Doth God permit the Union of do` om and Mahon) r coming; [ the me//l,6 is No, that he pretendethnot. to come hereafter.] When 627. To prove, that God willeth the exiffence offan, he bringeth the Chri ! was come, thus was falte, and fo evil : - inrfanceof 7ofeph'scafe, Gen.45. To whit I fay that the text faith notat God fill caufed the faith all that Godwilled the will or dal or sin of 3ofeph's brethren ; but only There gave them. the Yenelitio a ava or effect and the conte uents - Na only thecode-, Therefore he cttuCed an É' q , y Y untrue belief and evil, quents are mentioned in the Texts : His replyes to the anfwers prove no and I at uprn tcauf á.. more than the five things which I before afterted about fin. Nothing fo the habit of their faith, much deceiveth them, as not diftinguifhing between the finful ab1, and the and the aft. The nature effedt or paffion, when they are called by the fame name (as Selling, ofthe habit was in gene- ral A beliefof all divine Killing, c:ro. revelations: and in fpe- 628. His next infkanceis of Chrifts death, of which I Paid enough be- cialAbeliefinthe prom1- fore: But i. He underftandeth his adverfaries as afcribing only the -con:. fed Me liah.The termina- tionof theaft on theMet rah as futurerather than asIncarnate, required nothing pofitive inthe Habit : The fame Habit ferved to both alts, unlefsthe latter beingfor thenobler aft had Tomeaddition ; bur the former needednone. 2.And that this Habit might bring forth the aft in that circumflance,no-more wasnecefiary but i. Gods word ¡'Chrifermi maids eft.] 2. And Gods influx on thehabited faculty to caufe ittoatt according to that habit : So that when God had reverted that word f Chrifeus ven uran a¡tl hewas no longer the caufe determining the mind to believethat word; but only the calife that the habit offaith was Er towards . Chri! : But not at all fiah ratio eventari. For the determining word was called in, and it was an imperfeftion notto know Cc much, where it wasnot a fin. fequentt
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