Part II. ASaint or~ BrtJU.' I~) Divirie Predefinition, which may be fecured with the fe,nrity of the Creatures Liberty. In a word, to deny God to be the Soveraign Govern()ur ~f the wor.fd in proper fenfe, 1. Is a denying him to be God: tt being a term of Relat~o~, cornprizing Government, and not of rncer Nature: When 1t 1s commanded us that we have no other Gods and when we are required in the holy Covenailt to tllkJ the Lord for our God, and give up our felvu to him as hupcopt:, it mofl: plainly cxpreffeth that his Governing Authority, or 1115' Sovcr~tignty is comprehended in the term G1Jd. And in.deed having made a Rational-free-creature, whofe Nature reqmreth Moral Government , it followed by necej{ary refultancy that he that ha4 foie Authority and fufficiency, mufl: be his SIJVtraign. . z. Thefe Proud Blafphemers that deny Gods proper Go– ?Jernment1 do contradict the very drift ofScripture, that calleth him our J( ing andGovermur, and requireth our fubjecrion and 6bedience. 3. They deny the being of GodJ L;tws, bo£h the Law ofN a· ture, and the Wricren Laws, af;ld fo bloc out the Word of God, and the fenfe and ufe ofall his works. Though they allow them a certain Phy!ical operation on us. yet a4 Laws they do oblire~ rate them: that is, as they are Norma offi6ii & jHdicii, our Rule of duty, and expectation, and Gods refolved way of Judging. 4• They hereby overthrowall Duty tU fuch; and make Good actions to be but as the motion of die arrow that hits rhe white, and to have none but a Phyftcal goodnefs in thrm. For there can be no proper obedience;where there is no proper Govern111ent or Lllw• . , S. Hereby alfo they deny all Inward Jlirtue: For this alfo can have but a Phyjical GQodnefs, if Government and L<!WS be down. . 6. Hereby they deny the Being of fi": For where there is no Lawa~d government, but meer Phyfical necefficating morion, there ts no Tranfgrcffion. A·' d therefore when they make a deal of talk about Purging away fin, it is' not fin indeed that they mean; but a meer Phyfical difc:afe to be Phyjica!ly ex· pugned. 7· Hereby they d~ny all the prDper ]udgement of God by . U Chrifl •
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