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EphefianrChap.I.
without
his
will ordaining it
before,doth fo:For God doth not
onely
fore-know the
evils
which
befall
the
bafeft creatures,but he doth
or-
daine
the
falling
of
them
forth.
9.
What
ever Gods providence
worketh to
his
will,
is
to have
that
beto
which
his
providence
worketh
;
for providence
is
joyned with
will, and
of
things willed
:
But
Gods
providence
doth
fer
the
crea-
ture
fuch circumftances
in
which
it
will finne
;
doth
keepe hacke
all
effeétuall hinderances
which might hinder the creature
from finning,
doth
intend
the
ùfe
of
finne fallen
out,
Ergo ,
Gods
will was
that
his
creature
fhould fin.
lo.
That
which taketh away the
true
ground offearing
God,folide
trufting
in
him, patience
in evil!,
is
notto be admitted
:
But
the
opini-
on
that
faith,
that
evill may befall us,
which God neither
willeth
nor intendeth,
maketh
us
we
can
neither foundly feare, nor ftay
on
God
:
for how
can we
fully feare and
reft
on him,
in
whofe hand
it
is
not intirely to
keepe
us
from
all
evill, or
to bring about
all
that
evill
which may overtake
use Now
to
fay
that
man had
power
to
fall
into
finne
without Gods willor
intention; doth
affirme
both
thefe
viz.
that
it
is
out
of
Gods
hand
to
preferve
us
:
For though
he will,
and intend
our prefervation, yet
we
may
fall
into
evill
:And that
e-
vill may befall us,
which God doth not will,
nor
effeEtually
bring
a-
bout.I
neede
not
fliew
what
a
ground
of
patience
is
taken
away,when
we cannot thinke
that God
had any will
or
intention
in
that
which
is
12efallen
us.
11.
He who
may
holily will
and
ordaine
to
good
ends and
ufes after
-
finnes, he may ordaine
the
firft
alto,
and will
itas
a
mean
which
he
can
ufe
to
his
glory :this
is
thus (hewed
:
After
-finne
as
finne, hath
no
leffe
difproportion with Gods nature, nor
can
be no more
ap-
proved by him,thenthe
firft:It muft then onelybe
refpeEìs
for which
God
maywill an after-frnne,rather then the firft; but
if
refpe
is
make
finne a
fit
objeét
of
his
will,
the
firft
putteth on
as
good refpeds
as
any
other
:
For
it
was
fit
the
firft finne fhould
be
toteach the
liber-
ty,
and
withall infirmitie,of the creature,
that
he
might
take occafion
of
unfolding
his
mercy
and
juftice,that
his
admirable wifdome,good-
nefl'e,and
power might be
manifefted, while he did bring good
out
of
fuch
evil.
The
affumption
:
But
God moft
holilywilleth
and
or.
dainethafter
-
fines;
As for example; the
unjuft crucifying
of
Chrift,
Alls
4.28. Alls 2.23. None
are
blinde
like
fuch
as
will not
fee
:
For
to
fay
that God would not that
his
Sonne
fhould bekilled
by
the
Jewes
procurement,
and
the
hands
of
finners,
but
onely that
God
I
would
have him delivered into
their hands,to
fuffer
what God
would
have
him
toindure,
is
but
an efcape
of
a
turne- ficke
braine,
blinded
with
wilfulneffe;for
what
is
it
butto fay,God wouldnot that
his Son
fhould be killed
by
them,
but
given into their hands that
he
lhould
be killed
by
theme
for
it
was
death,
even
the
death ofhis
croffe,yea,and
that
under
the
hands
offinners,that God
did lay
upon
him
to
fuller
:
Neither
loth
it help,to fay,they
were now refradary
(inners;