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R.
11.
thefe
thingsfiom
the wife, even
fo,
becaufe
it
pleafeth thee.
Now
to come
to
the
Dothines.
Firft we
fee,
that
every
thing which commeth about,is Gods
effedu-
all
working:
of
him,
by
him, and
for
him, are
all
things,
Rom.
II.
ult.
r
Cor.
8.6. Things
are
of
two
forts,
good,
or
evill
;
good
things are na-
tural!,
or
fupernaturall, fuck as are
wrought
in
Chrift
:
Now
all
thefe
the Lords
efficacie is in
making
them,yea
of
nothing:Though
man mutt
have
force matter
to worke on, God
can give
being, and
call
the things
that
are
not,
making
them
ftand out
as
if they were. Secondly,
his
worke
is
in
fuftaining
them
;
He doth not
leave these things,
as
a
Car-
penter
his
building, or
Shipwright
his
Ship,but(till
is
with them
fuftai-
ning
them
in
the being,
received
from him.
That
which hath
not
beate
of
it felfe,
but
is
made
hot
(as
water) with
fire, it depended]
on
fire
to
be kept
in
beate, and
no
longer then
fire
is
under
it,
it
will not
keepe
hot
:
So thefe things, not having being
of
themfelves, depend
on
him
for their
continual! fuftentation,who
did
first
givethem theirbeing.
Thirdly,Gods
action
is
in
them,
governing them to that
end
for which
he did
make
them
;
Things depending
on
another,
are
governed by that
on which
they
depend. Betide,
our
servants depend
on
us,
to
be gover-
ned
by us;
what
are
all
the creatures,
but
fo
many things miniftring
to
him
who
is
the Lord
of
has
Not
to
fpeake
that the
fame
wií-
dome which
reached]
us
to get any
thing,
for this
or
that
purpofe, doth
teach
us
likewife
when now
we have
it,
to
governe
and
apply it
to that
purpofe
:
So
Gods
wifdome, which made
all
things
to
an end, mutt
needes governe and
ufe
them
to
that
end
:
There
is
no queftion
in
thefe
things. For that
any thing should
beget
a
thing
like in
kinde to
it
felfe, it
is
not
strange
;
and
that
any workeman
íhould worke
any
thing
like
himfelfe,
is
no
wonder; The
difficult
is
in evil!
things:
Evil!
is
either ofpunifhment, or
fin;
Now
God
is
by himfelfe
an
author
of
the
first
;
Sec,
vimos
3.6.
Is
there
evill in
the
titre,
which
I
worke
rut
?
Oct
of
the
mouth
of
the
Lord
commeth
evill and
good,
Lam.3
38.
For,
punifhment
though
it
be
evil!
to
his
fenfe
who
fuffereth under
it,
yet
it
is
good
in
it
felfe,when now
it
is
deferved;
as
to
execute
a
man,
is evil!
to him who
fuffereth,
good
in
the Judge
who
cutreth
of
a
hurt-
ful!
member for the good
of
the publique.
Evil!
of
finne,
is
either of
the
first
finne,
or the
finnes ensuing.
Now
thefe,
to
fpeake
in
general!,
neither
of
them
are
without Gods
effeltuall permiffion:They
who
fo
are
in
Gods power, thatthey
cannot
fin
without
his
fuftèrance,
his
permit
úionis
effeeruall
to the
being
of
fin
from them, that
is,
neceffary
to
this, that they
(
hould actually commit that they
are inclined
to commit.
Now
thus it
is
with God, for
he
doth
effectually
worke forcethings
by
himfelfe without others;
as
the
creation
of
all
thefe things
;
force things
in and
with others, working
as
inftruments under him
and with
him
;
thus
he
worketh
all
the
workes
of grace; fomethings
by
permit
-
ting others,
and
that when he
could hinder them
;
thus
his efficacie
rea-
cheth to the
being of finne,and this
is
molt
juft
in
God;
for though
evil!
IS
not good,
yet
it
is
good that there
should be evil!
:
God
who bringeth
light