Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

oppofith not Gods Mercy: aun. Secondly , as where love or pitie is found fecundhr: pafsionis affictim, there it doth the uttermofi it well can in relieving the perfons pitied or loved ; fo where it is onely fictundà n relevationis e f eciurn , there it worketh more or leffe according to the free determination of the agent. Thirdly, the naturali affeóion of love or pitie to- wards their young ones doth not in brute beafis fo equally determine their affection, but they inwardly maybear and outwardly may Phewmore dffedion and more eíieds of their afrehion to one then to another. And in men the naturall affec`ion of love Both not fo determine Fathers or Mothers, but it leaveth Jacob free to love Jofeph more then his brethren , and to give unto him more effects ofhis love then unto the refi: It leaveth Rebecca free to love Jacobmore then Efau , and to do more for him then for Efau. If the naturali affection in Beads towards their young onesexcluded/ not all difference of more and leffe in their love; if the naturall love of Parents to their children beno hindrance but they may Phew more effects of this love to one, and leaf. to another; then Cod, in whom Love or Mercy are effedions and not affections, máy freely both in naturall and fupernaturall things do more for force , and leffe for o- thers. The decree therefore of Ton- de- l' 2,. &ion 29t

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