I i2 Ofthe a('ature, knowledge, Will as the great enemies of Gods Providence for denying this ; As ifhe would tempt the World to think that socinians were in the right, andthat Jetu- itei,Lutherans and rlrminians were the only defenders of the Holinefs of God, whilftCalvinyls made him the Lover of all the finniche World, as the molt appetible conducibleMediums to his Glory. see sonavem. well con- 649. But ( to proceed) his next Argument is, cap. a;: sin conferretb see 1 this t. a dcon- Iomething to the fplendor, ornament, and plenitude of the Univerfe : Er- futing q. 3. Naito; fieri mike- go, God willeth its exience: This is anfwered before. The antecedent tens bonum eft , M is utterly unproved. Sin addeth nothing to the ornamentor perfeeìion of One oceaf:ó bón: theWorld: His word is no proof. 650. Afterwards he heapeth up many frivolous arguments againft that which he calleth reproachingly , The idle Permion of fin and faiths that itfrufáratetb' the prayers of the Saints, and theirpatience, their gratitu e, trufl, hope, fear, joy, alloweth the arrogance of the perfecutors; fighteth with Gods tvifdom, Clemency, Juflice, Providence, with. the Mini- ftry oftheWord, the Promifes, Threatnings, with Miniersconfirming men againfl fufferings, and it is blafphemoufly injurious to God, and contrary to the order of things in the world, that he fbould permit fin, andnotw!U the being of it: Ref What is it that a man, yea, a pious man ina blind zeal ófGod and felf-conceit, may not pour out confident words for c What a cafe is the poor Church in, when the unlearned people mull be on both fides charged by their Teachers withblafphemy, what way ever they gof This man will tell them that they are *blafphemous, and overthrow all reafon !Pak 37 °7- and Religion, if they fay that God onlyPermitteth fin, anddoth not him- felf will the being of it, and move unavoidably all wills, and tongues;, and hands, to all theblafphemies, perfecutions, and murders that aredone,, and damn men for it whenhe bathdone. And others will as confidently fay that be is aBlafpbemer, for charging Godto be much more the caufe of all forbidden ads of wickednefs than Devils and men are, and then damning them for it, and for putting God into the fhape of the Devil; and painting him odious tohumane nature, that man may not love him What (hall poor people think when they are thus torn and tormented by their holyGuidest But all his arguments are before anfwered , when I !hewed himhow manywayes God bath to fecure the Efecis and Events in the world, and attain all hisEnds, and yet only Permit, and neither, Will, nor Love, nor caufe the fin. 651. cap. 26. he cometh to plead for Predetermination and faith p.385. God predetermineth us (to the 411 rye God) in linea mere phyfica, & non morali. Meer delufory words. He maketh it by the Law of Nature a fm to hate him, and then hemaketh men bate him in linea phyfica fj non morali ! as if"the moral finfulnefs refulted not from the Law and all; that is, here from Nature it felf, viz, of the Man and all both which Godmade. 652. Pag.386. he faith, that [ Direfla er expreffa e of fecax Dei Fall= I confers Gab. aiel in a; tio, qua T'alt at fit feu fiat talus Dei adii, non facit Palm Maliris qua d. 37.. fpeaketh too like p f per accidens a q uitar alum authorem.] Refp. But that per accidens is there feveral atheologt- rxl a(fertions : asdo ma- no reafon of the denyal, if God caufe that accident alto, as the firft caufe. ny others. If hemake aLaw, and make theforbidden a&, the relation of fnfulnefr is anAccident indeed, but arifeth from the faid fundamenttam fo necelljfa- rily that it cannot be otherwife. But it fhould have made a holy Divine to tremble to have faid, that God direítly, exprefly and ejeítually willeth mens .rlfl of hating God, viz.that it exf or be. 03.40
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