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V
ER,II.
Epbefans,Chap.i.
The
Vfe is, firftfor
our comfort
:
While
we know
that
all
that
good
which God bathwilled
to
us,he will worke itfor
us
;'faith,
repentance,
perfeverance
in his
feare, fanétification and falvation; His will is, we
fhould
be
raifed
up
at
the
laic
day,
all
thefe he will
effeétually
workefor
us.
Did our
good
depend uponour owne wils,
as
thingsexempted from
fubjeâion to
his
power,
all
our comfort
were at an end
:
If
the prefer
-
ving
me
from
evill, and
bellowing on
me
good,
depend
not
entirely for
principal
efficacy
on
God,
farewell
all
religion.
We
fee
them
confuted
that
make
Gods
will tend mans, and worke
f
Ile'
2;
accordingly
as
that
enclineth
;
which
is
to
let
the
Cart
before the Horfe,
to
make
the
fupream governeffe come after
the hand-maid.
We
cannot
go to the next towne, but we
muff
fay,if
God
will,
faith lames.
God
can
have nothing
with
man,
no faith,
no converfion, but
if
man will, and
that not
as
comming to him
in
obedience, but
as
able
to
crone him,
and
refill
his
pleafure.
He
doth
frill
worke after
the
counfell
of
his
will,feeing itpleafed him
to yeeld fo to the liberty
of
his
creature.
Where
learne
they that God hath
fufpended his
omnipotency,
and
put
the
flaffe
out
of
his
hand
[ The
Scripture telleth us,
that
God
hath
the hearts
of
K
ings,
to
carry them as
he
will,
that the power that
raifed
Chrift, worketh
faith in
us.
Secondly, I fay,
that
did
God
looke
to
the will
of
another,
as
the
rule
of
that
he will worke,
he
could
not
be
faid
to worke
after
the
counfell
of
his
will, though he might be
faid
to
worke willingly
:
as
it
is
with
fervants andfubjeds,.who
looke to the wills
ofothers
for their
direlion,
of
others
to whom they
are
in
power inferiour.
Lally,
let
us, feeing all
things
are
according
to
his
will, yeeld him
Yfe
3;
obedience
in
all
things
:
It
is
fit
children
or
jfervants fhould be
fubjeâ
to the
will
of
parents and
maters;
how much
more
forusto fubjeâour
felves
to
his
will,which
is
ever guided
with
unfearchable
wifedome
e
Having thus
admonifhed what I deeme
fit
to be fpoken more gene-
rally,
as
fitting to popular
intruélion
; before
I
paffe
this place,
I
thinke
it good to deliver my judgement touching
that queftion.
9!efi. Whether
vldams
voluntary fall was preordained, and in
fume fort willed
by God,
yea or
not
Or
whether
God
did onely
forefee it, and decree
to
fuffer
it, not
willing,
or
intending,
that
it fhould fall
out, though
he
law howhe could worke
good
out
ofir.
I
will
firfl
let
downe the arguments on
both
fides.
Secondly, lay
downe
conclufions opening
the truth. Thirdly
,
anfwer
the
arguments
propounded to
the
crntrary. Thofe who
defend
the latter,
reafon
thus.
I.
That
which maketh
God cruel!,
and
more
crud
then Tygers them
-
feb es,
and
unjufi',
is
not
to
be
granted
:
But
to make
him
will
the
trndefer_
ved
fall
and
ruineof
his
creatures doth make
him
fo.
2. That whichmaketh
God
will an
occaflon
of
'hewing
his
owne
wrath,
ie
fe-
lif
hly
o
f
cribed
to God,
nowt.
fe
man
willmake work
for himfelf
to
he
angry at.
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