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A20766 The summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded : more largly & cleerely handled and explaned / published by John Downame ... Downame, John, d. 1652. 1625 (1625) STC 7148.3; ESTC S5154 448,527 580

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the place where Christ should bee borne And so His counsell tooke effect where all counsell of man did faile As for those places which seeme to crosse this Doctrine of Gods free and absolute working and to carrie a shew as if hee were sometimes hindred of his Creatures from doing his owne will as I will x Ezech. 33. 11 not the death of a sinner and How y Mat. 23. 37 oft would I haue gathered you together and you would not The z Luke 7. 30. Pharises and Lawyers made void the counsele of God towards them c. They onely teach what God is pleased with and whereunto he inuiteth and calleth all men not what hee purposeth to worke in euery one by his grace and holy Spirit Fourthly The brute beasts and vnreasonable Creatures serue to doe his pleasure hee stoppeth the mouth of the a Dan 16. 23. Lyons when the prey is in their teeth maketh the silly and weake Grashoppers to be a strong b Ioel 1. 6. Nation a mightie c Ioel 2 2. people and as a huge d Ioel 2. 25. Armie when they come to performe his Iudgements Fiftly Heauen and Earth the Sea and all that therein is are at his becke the e Abac. 3. 10. 11 Windes the Showres the Stormes Fire and Haile Ice and Snow are as his Arrowes to scatter and consume his foes yea Hell and destruction are naked in his sight and giue vp their dead when hee calleth for them But albeit whatsoeuer God willeth must most certainly and necessarily come to passe because hee willeth it yet that taketh not away the freedome of will in the reasonable Creature nor the nature and propertie of the second causes but only bends them to runne that way that he hath fore-determined they notwithstanding this necessitie not being compelled to doe that which God determineth but freely willing that which is done by them So that if wee referre the action to GODS will which is the supreme cause of all it may be said necessarie if to mans will it may bee said contingent and voluntarie And thereupon effects and euents of things are termed such as the second causes are necessarie If they be necessarie contingent if they be contingent voluntarie if the second causes be voluntarie although in respect of Gods Decree all bee necessarie When Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel stood in f Ezech. 21. 19 20 21 22. the head or mother of wayes where one way parting into two made him doubtfull which to take either that vnto Ierusalem or the other that led vnto Rabath a Citie of the Ammonites it was a more vncertaine and contingent matter whether he would come against Ierusalem or not for whithersoeuer the diuination did conduct him thither was he bent and what more vncertaine then diuinations The vanitie whereof Philosophers themselues haue worthily derided But for all that it could not bee otherwise chosen but that hee should take the way that led vnto Ierusalem to come and to besiege it the Lord hauing so ordayned and fore-spoken by his Prophet Our Sauiour Christ according to his Fathers will dyed necessarily as g Acts 13. 3. Paul disputeth to the Iewes That it was of necessitie for him to suffer and to rise from the dead And he himselfe O ye h Luke 24. 26. fooles and slow of heart was it not of necessitie that Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glorie Yet he dyed willingly for so hee professeth i Iohn 10. 18. No man taketh my life from me but I lay it downe of my selfe And in his k Mat. 26. 39. Prayer to his Father he resigneth it wholly to his good will and pleasure Therefore as the free and cheerfull obedience of Gods Children so renowned l Psal 110. 3. else-where in the Scripture receiueth no blemish or disgrace because whatsoeuer they do was necessarie to bee done in respect of his Decree no more can the wicked fetch from hence any excuse or pretence for their wickednesse to say I haue done nothing but that which God hath appointed and who can resist his will For first God doth not at all will sinne as it is sinne for this is contrarie to his most pure and iust nature nor doth decree that wicked actions shall bee done in respect of their wickednes and maliciousnesse in which sence onely they are euill but as there is some good in the action which is not at all intended or thought vpon by him that doth it And secōdly although in regard of Gods counsell it be necessarie that those actions which are wicked and sinfull should come to passe yet in thee the sinne is voluntarie and hee disposeth of that most iustly which thou cōmittest wretchedly not seruing his prouidence but thine owne vile affections for though thou willest and doest the things that God hath decreed to make a holy vse of and would haue in some respect done yet thy will is not carryed with an intent of obedience to his will It m 1. Kings 12. 15 24. was from God that the Kingdome of Israel was rent in sunder and ten of the Tribes giuen to another for the iust punishment of Salomons sinne but the sinne aswell of foolish n 1. King 12. 14 Rehoboam came betweene following the rash and headdie aduice of children and reiecting the sage graue aduice of the wise Counsellors of his Father as of the people o 1. King 12. 20 themselues that set vp Ieroboam with a rebellious minde against the house of Dauid In which respect God p Hoshea 8. 4. renounceth to haue any part in this their Action They set vp Kings but not from me they make Princes which I know not Lastly all that hitherto hath beene spoken concerning this whole gouernment and dispensation is the peculiar prayse of God which hee imparts not to any Creature For hee q Esay 42. 8. giueth not his glorie to another Therefore the Iewes r Iohn 5. 17. 18. when our Sauiour Christ said My Father worketh hitherto and I worke did rightly conclude thereupon that he made himselfe equall with God This in one particular is set forth when the King ſ 2. Kings 5. 17. of Israel detesteth it as a blasphemie Am I a God to kill and to giue life And t Gen 30. 2. Iacob his Wife bidding him to giue her children or else she should dye Am I in Gods stead who hath kept backe from thee the fruit of thy wombe So in Deuteronomie God himselfe saith Know u Deut. 32. 39. that I am hee and there is no God with me I kill and restore to life c. Which by proportion is to be vnderstood of all the rest And this is that memoriall whereby this true God will be knowne from all false and counterfeit gods Esay 40. 26. Lift vp your eyes on high and see who hath created these things And Ieremie x Ier. 10. 10. cryeth