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Ephefiaru,Chap.
I.
falling
,
and fo have proved him
without
falling
, why
he did
choofe
to
fet
him
in
fuch,
in
which he
did forefee
that
he would fall
certainly
2: That
about which
an
aft
of
Gods
will
is
occupied,
that thing
is
willed:
Gods
permiflion
is an
ad of
his
will,and
is
occupied
about
fin,
the entring or being
of it:
Ergo, this
is
willed.
The
firti part
is
plaine
; as
love, hatred, feare,cannotbe about any
thing,but the thing
muff
be
loved,feared,hated;
fo
here,neither doth
man permit any thing, having
power to withftand
it,but
he
is
willing
with it.
Now
permiflion
is
fo
an
objeEi
ofwill, that
it
is
likewife an
ad
of
will,
converfant about
that which
it
permitteth.
3.
He
who prohibiting any thing, nilleth
it
or
willeth it
(hall not
be,
he permitting
any
thing willeth
it
(hall
be.
But
God
doth
ever
nill
that which
he
hindereth.
4.
That
which God fo permitteth
that
he
bath
hisend
in
permitting it,
that
he
willeth
;
for what
ever
bath
an
end,
that fo
far
forth
is
good
:
whatever
in
any degree
is
good,that
fo
far
forth
is a
fit
objeil
of
the
di-
vine
wil:ButGod permitting
fin
hath
his
end,why he
will
permit it,as
all
grant.
S.
Hee
who
willeth the antecedent, on which
an
other thing doth
infallibly enfue, he
doth
will
that which followeth alfo: As God
cannot willthe being
of
the Sunne, but he
muff will
theillumination
following it.
But
God willeth
to permit,
on which infallibly followeth
the
fin
permitted
;
otherwife
God
might permit,
and
the thing
per
-
mitted
not
happen,which
is
abfurd
tothink;for
then he
might
deliver
a
perfon
up
to
finne, and he
not
fall
into the
finne
into whichbee
is
delivered
:
For though the
a&ion
of
free -will come betweene
Gods
permiflion,
delivering up, and the
finne
to which
we are delivered
and permitted, yet
God doth
never
permit, but that the creature
wil
fall
mofi Infallibly
to that which
is
permitted.
6.
Hee
who
cannot
but either
will
that
finne fhould
be,or
will
that
it
fhould
not be,he bath willed
that
it fhould be:But
God
muff
either
wil
ir,or
nill
it
,
Ergo.Hewhole omnipotency
is
in
the
being
of
all
things,
he muff
will
the
being
of
all
things:Godsomnipotencie
is in
the
being
of
every thing
:
for looke
as
if
his
knowledge be notin every thing,
he were
not
omnifcient;and looke
as if
his prefence
were not
in
every
thing,
he
were not omniprefent;fo
if
his
powerfull will
worke not
in
every
thing,
he
is
not omnipotent.
7.
No
defeét
of
an
inferiourinftrument;
can
trouble
the worke
of
an
all-
knowing and
almighty
Artificer
;
For the
inffrument cannot
doe
any
thing,nor yet
faile in
any
thing,without
his fufferance
andknow-
ledge:
But
a
defeC
in
an
Initrument,not
intended and chofen
by the
Artificer, doth diffurbe
his
worke
;
Therefore
Adams
defeCion from
Gods
order.,
was
not without the
will and intention
of
God.
Í
8.
That
which maketh Gods providence more
impeded
toward
man,is
not
to
be graunted
:
But
to fay,God letteth
man fall
into
finne
without