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Ephefzl<nr,Chap.r.
VVER.rI.
doe
not
wittingly and wilfully
fin
againft
God
from
the
voluntary
coun-
fell
ofit:Ergo,as
God
will havethe end, fo
hee
cannot will
the
creature
(hall
fin,otherwife then from
the
wilful! defedìibility
of
it.
Argument
a.
To
the
fecond
I anfwer, denying thepropofition
God
may will
an
occafion
of
manifefting
his
jult wrath, or cite
he
cannot
will
the
de
monftratiòn
of
his
owne
perfediions
:
but
to fly
God
cannot effect
the
(how
of
this
or that
perfection
in
himfelfe,
is
over
-harfh
and un-
befeeming
the power
and
wifdome
ofthe
Almighty:
He who hath the
creature
fo in his
power
that he
cannot
make defection
further
then
he
willeth,
he
muff needs
will
the
being of
that which
his
jufticefhall
punifh
before
it can
come to be
:
yea, it
is
fo
with
men, that fometime
they doe draw this
or that
fad
from another, with which
they
are juftly angry fo farreas
to
punifh it in
the
offenders.
Thus
a
wafter
draweth forth the
unfaithfulneffe
of
a
fervant
:
Of
which fomewhat
more
in
the
laft
argument. This
may
be retorted.
That
which maketh
God unable
of
himfelfe
to
Phew
his
perfedtions,
is
not
true :But that
which faith he cannot
ordaineor
will
the
being
of
finne,
maketh
him
unable
of
himfelfe
to
(hew his
revenging
juftice;
ergo,
it
is
abfurd.
Argument 3.
The
fecond part
of
that
third Argument
is
denied
:
It
is
one
thing
to
make mankinde
in
fome part capable
of
life;
another thing
to
will
and intend it fhould all
attaine
life
:
This latter
was never
in
God
; But
God
Paid,
doe
thi
and live.
This doth
(hew
what God would
have
the
creature
take as
his
will,
not
what
was his
fecret will within himfelfe:
or
it
(hewed
what way
the
creature might attaine life,
both for
himfelfe and his fcede; But it doth
not
Phew
that God
had this will within
himfelfe,that
his
creature
fhould
with
effedt
performe
this,for then
he
would
have
wrought
it in his crea-
ture
;
even
as
the
threarning
doth not
Phew
that
it
was
Gods
final!
pleafure
within himfelf
that
we
fhould all lye
indeath,ifthat
we finned.
LArgument
4.
The
fecond part
is
again denied
:
To
give
a
commandement to
my
creature, to doe
rhis
or
thar,which
I
am
minded within my
felfe
he
Thal
notdoe,is no untruth,when
it
is
not for
to
deceive,bur for
trial!
orother-
wife:As
in
Abraham,offer
thy
fenne
ifaak,yet
Gods will
was
not
to
have
him
offered
:
the command,
ergo,
doth not
lay downe
what
was Gods
will
within himfelf;for thefe were contradictory
in
the Divine will,if
he
fhould be
Paid
to
will
in
himfelf
at
the
fame
time,
and
not
ro will with-
in
him
felfthe
offering
of
lfaak:
Thus
here it
is
no untruth
for
God to
fig-
nifie
this
as
his
will
to
Adam,that hefhould doe unto life
that
in
charge,
when
it
was
not
his will
to have
him with
effedt
performe
it
;
and looke
as
God
in
his
threarning
did fignifieas his finall
will,
that
which
was
not
his finali pleafure
touching
mankind, without
any
untruth;
fo
here.
Argument
g.
The
fecond
part
is
denied, we
doe not
affirme
the
fubftradtion
of
any
grace