Davenant - Houston-Packer Collection BT810 .D38 1641

away the rife andendofGods, Gifts. there words have not alwayes the fame fi- gnification, This Authour by confounding the divers meaning of thefe and the like words doth flrangely intangle himfelf through his whole difcour1e., Firíl there- fore; any thing is faid to be according to Gods will, which confidered in it felt is according to the goodneffe and pureneffè of the Di- vine nature. This is a perpetual) and necef facie volition in God, gm rt 'Jeo placet omne bonum. And this t ,implex complacentia to- wards all good actions ofmen, or events un- to men, is poffiblecirca creatur.as orn aes etiam nunquam futures : For there is no good- neffe imaginable, which bath not an agree- ment with the good will of God, which we call amorem fimplicis complaceí#i e. u Sails cortstat hujufmodi complacentiarr Dái verfri circa panitentiain, gratiamn "& gloriampofibi- lem Çudt aut cujuclìbetdasnmzti. But this is not it which we now (peakof z. Second- ly, God is Paid to will, dare, oraim_at that good, for the obteining whereof he afford- eth fitting means, thoughwithal) he willeth that it (hall be in the liberty of the creature to hinder & fruftrate thole means,& though he have abfolutely decreed to permit the creature to abufe them unto his own de- flruction. This is that which ufually is term- edby Divines volunas antecedens, volrrntas conditionata, volsrnto f mplices complacenthe. ßb3 And 191 Y® t:rideRmzK. De vol. dirt). 6. §,z. png.;8. u Ratk. di/'p. 19. peg. z14. 2.

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