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V
ERA!.
Epbeflan:r,Chap.I.
grace he
had, neyther doth
this follow on decreeing his fall,
but onely
the not
fuperadding
of
that
grace
whereby he would infallibly
not
have
fallen.
Gods decreeing
that
he
fhould finne
out
of
his
owne voluntary,
doth
not diminifh any
pc
wer he
had, whereby
he
might
have flood
if
he
would,but doth onely hold
backe
that
grace which would havemade
himwith
effeâ
to
will
that thing which he
was otherwife
able: the
not
putting to graceno way due,which fhouldmakehim infallibly Hand,
is
one
thing, the
fubflradling
of
Grace inabling him
to
fland
if
he
would,
is
another.
vlrgument
6.
That
which he willeth,
that
he
is
author
ofand
worketh.
We
diflin-
guifh,
that which
he willeth fo
as
to command
it, that he
is
the author
of
to
his
creature,
and
that
he
worketh
in
him
:
But
to
will the being
of
fìnne,
is
to will
that
his
creature ihall
of
his
owne accord without his
warrant
doe this
or
that.
Argument
7.
He
who
gave flrength
enough to avoid
finne and
forbade it on
paine
of
death, would not have
finne.
Anf.
It
followeth not, but thus onely,
that
he
would not have
his creature finne,
fo
as
the blame
of
it
fhould
redound
on
him
:
had
he
willed
that he
fhould
not
have finned, he
would have given
thatgrace withwhich
he
Caw
he would
not
have fallen.
Argument
8.
That
is
not to be yeelded whichmaketh
God
will
a
thing difagreeing
with
his
nature,as
allowing
it
for
good,not that
whichmaketh
him will
it fo farre onely
that
it
fhould exift, and have
being, for it
is
good
that the
evill fhould be
which
God
difalloweth
:
or thus, that which
hath naturally
and intrinfically
a
pofitive
contrariety
with Gods nature,
that
he cannot will,fuch
a
thing
finne
is
not;
for
fuch contrariety
cannot
fland
with the impoffibility
of
the
divine
nature.
Argument
9.
Gods decree
raketh
not away
mans
liberty;God doth
not
by
any out-
ward force determine the will, but
as
being more intimate
to it then
it
is
unto it
Idle.
If
man can
determine
his
will, and no way diminifh
his
power tothe contrary ; how much more
fhall
God
be able
a
Not
to
fay
that
thcOiigh
man
for
exercife be
determined to one, yet while he
doth
this
out
of
free
judgement, counting
it
fuch
as
he may doe,
or not
doe,
he cannot but worke
molt
freely.
Argument
to:
He that
is
author
of
frnne,
dothnot
punifh
it,
fo farre
forth, or
in
that
refpeet,
in
which he worketh it. Againe,
God
is
not
laid Author,
but
of
fuch things
which
he
doth not morally
by
command,and phyfrcallyby
inward operation worke
in us
:They
fhould fay, he
that
punifheth finne,
willeth not
that
finne fhould
be, which
is falfe.
Argument
I
I.
He
who giveth
his fonne
to
abolifh finne, he
doth not allow
finne
as
good
; this
followeth, or he would
not that
it
fhould
Hill
dwell
in
thofe
for whom his Sonne effeéìuallyfuffereth:But
it
wil
not follow,that
N
who
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