Of Predeginataon. 34 when committed. That Adultery is committed is longof man : that it is a fn when committed is longof God and man5 God by his Law, and Mari by his A. So that when you fay God caufeth not the effence, but theexigence or futurity, you are fo far out, as that lefs of caufality is to be afcribed tohim, as to theexigence, than the effence. 2. But what is theexifience but the effence ex ing, or extra caufts? And what is it to caufefin, but to caufe it toexifl ? And what is it tocaufe it toexift, but to caufe it, or give it a being ? And what is it towill that fin (hall exif but that the effence of it fhall exifi ? And what is it to will the event orfuturity, but to will thatfin (hall be ? And what more canman will or do about it, to thew himfelf to be bad, (as EJtius and others fully manifeft. ) .' C. i cannot but think that God maywill that A&whichis fin, fo he do not will it * as fin, (andfomay caufe it) Quodpeccatum, but not Qua u peccatum. B. Here are three things before us : 1. The common fubfiratum or matter of thefn, which is the Faculty, and the object, and the At only i'ngenere ague, or as not cloathed with the forbidden circumfiances. 2. The A& thus circumftantiated. 3. TheRelative form ofinfulnefs. 1. No doubt but God doth caufe all the firft, the Faculty, Obje&, i and the A& as anA&; e. g. In David's Adultery andMurder, and Peter's denying Chrift, God gave them the Faculty by which they did it : He upheld their naturalpower 3 and as the Fountain of Nature concurred with it in and to theA& asanA&; But, 2. The Aft as thus circumftan- tiated he neither caufed nor willed, but permitted only ; that is, that David fhouldhic & nineTuft after her that was anothermans wife, that he fhouldvitiate her, that he fhould choofeout Vriah to theSword, that Peter should fpeak thofe particular words, &c. In the firft fenfe, God willeth the Aft which is fin, and the Faculty which is finful ; but notin the fecondas finfullycircumftantiated. Andas foryour aria peccatum, I tell you again, fewSinners, ifany, will it qua peccatum. f0 C. Whatfay ä youto thisundeniable Argument : IfGod will not that Acs "which is fin, he willeth almoft nothingthat men do; For we fin inall a0 fomeway or other. And foGod hath little todo in the world. B. The laitanfwer fully ferveth to this. If we fin in every A&, yet all that isin everyA&, is not fin, or prohibited. All that is good in the A& is ofGod, and willedby him. But it is the prohibited circumfian- cetof theA&, whichGod doth not caufeor Will, which morally fpeci- fie it as fin. Aswhen I pray, I fin in prayingcoldly, unbelievingly, with wandring thoughts: God caufeth not thefe, though he caufe the Prayer. Or tocome from compound A &s to fimple : Thofe wandring thoughtsarenot my fin as they are thoughts, but as they are upon an un- due Objeft. A lye is not a fin as it is a word, but as this wordwhich is fafe; And foin all others. " C. But force AEI! are (Empty forbidden in themfelves, and not only in et theircìrcumftdnces :Therefore ifGod there caufe the AC1,hecaufeth theSin. B. NoAft as. an A& is forbidden, but as circumftantiated, by Ob- je&, Time Mode, Place, &c. Mr. Capell * choofeth lying only as an inftance of prohibitum per fe. But I anfwered before, that all the A& in lying is Volition,' Intelle6fion and Speech; And there as fuch are not forbidden : Butonly there particular words whichare falfe. The corn- , mon inftance is odifre Deum; Buthere hatred in it felf is not thefin, but as unduly terminated on God as the Objeft. Anèthis God.willeth not. * Twtff. l%ind. Es; Di p.not. Fal/em e/b peccatum fieri ab bo- mineat ill peccatum. Licet fit peccatum ut fit ab bomi- ne,non tasen fit ab.tomine ut ea petcatam, boc eli fob ration peccati. .ganto minus in divinam volun- tatem cadit, - -tom hoc ne nHumana: voluntatem ompotat. Lib. of Tempt.
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