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A34921 Isagoge ad Dei providentiam, or, A prospect of divine providence by T.C., M.A. T. C., M.A. 1672 (1672) Wing C6818; ESTC R4623 270,847 560

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inter montium angustias quod enim Deus decrevit non apparet sed est absconditum quasi lateret in altis montibus Tunc ergo incipimus agnoscere Dei consilium ubi ipsa experientia nos docet hoc vel alio modo fuisse decretum quod prius nos latebat a picture of the process of Providence Things before they come to pass are latent between these Mountains as Calvin interpreteth 2. Matters in Scripture are insisted on as having a reference to God's Decree or Will 1. Some things are referred to God by way of proper efficiency Paul speaks of vessels of mercy which the Lord had afore prepared unto glory Rom. 9. ver 23. What this preparing of the Lord is the same Apostle doth give to understand not only in that Chapter but elsewhere as Eph. 1. According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ according to the good pleasure of his will v. 4 5. and not only good supernatural as Vocation Justification and the like center in the Purpose or Will of God as the Apostle here sheweth but likewise good natural and moral for he hath made a decree for the rain Job 28. 26. The fire and hail snow and vapours stormy wind fulfil his word Psal 148. 8. Every good and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the father of lights James 1. 17. 2. Other matters have a reference to the Decree or Will of God by way of a wise righteous permission It may be observed how the Apostle speaks differently of the vessels of mercy and the vessels of wrath Rom. 9. the vessels of mercy the Lord is said to prepare unto glory v. 23. the vessels of wrath are said only to be fitted to destruction v. 22. God infuseth no evil into them and yet the evil of sin cannot be without his Will so permitting not by way of approbation but physical non-impedition There is indeed a curious and spotless artifice of the Holy One of Israel even in and about the sins of men He never acts deficiently from the Rule of his Eternal Righteousness and therefore the Lord 's Willing sin in a sense is not to be ignorantly jumbled together with man's not-hindering who is under a Law to hinder it I see no reason then to deny the reference that sin hath to the Will or Purpose of God The Necdubitandum est Deum facere bene etiam sinendo fieri quaecunque male non enim hoc nisi justo judicio sinit profecto bonum est omne quod justum est nam nisi hoc esset bonum ut essent mala nullo modo esse sinerentur ab Omnipotente Bono cui procul dubio quam facile est quod vult facere tan facile est quod non vult esse non finere August in Enchirid. cap. 96. hand of Providence writ the Copy of Eternal Love in Christ's Sufferings the Pen had its hair and that its blot a very great and black one and yet what saith Peter Acts 2. 23. Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and fore-knowledg of God ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain Add to this that in Acts 4. 27 28. which seems to be a full and clear confession of the Church in this point 3. Matters are insisted on in Scripture not only by way of m●er Reference but also by way of Inference from the Purpose or Will of God as declared An instance full for this is the not breaking the legs of Christ John 19. 33 36. The Apostle Paul doth also inter calling c. from predestination Rom. 8. 30. yea he doth infer a patient bearing of afflictive dispensations on this wise saying that no man should be moved by these afflictions for your selves know that we are appointed thereunto 1 Thes 3. 3. 4. Instruments in their actings have a subserviency to the Purpose or Will of God In Ezekiel's vision the wheels are mov'd by the living creatures they go whither the Spirit was to go Ezek. 1. 12. And not only Instruments ministerial who act knowingly and regularly but others who intend no conformity to the Will or Purpose of God in matters brought to pass do yet pay a kind of tribute to the Lord's Will as in the selling of Joseph into Egypt and the crucifying of Christ Gen. 50. 20. Acts 4. 27 28. 5. If the Lord's Will be not the foundation of Dispensations then something else must take place and if men as the noblest of creatures here below shall have the Chair of State then to sacrifice to their own net and to burn incense unto their drag will be found good divinity which the Prophet censures as bad Hab. 1. 16. But Christians have not so learned Christ for he teacheth to resolve their mercies ultimately into the good pleasure of God Mat. 11. 25 26. 6. The Scripture doth plainly assert this truth Psal 115. 3. But our God is in the heavens he doth whatsoever he pleaseth Isa 46. 10. My counsel shall stand and I will fulfil all my pleasure Dan. 4. 29. This is the interpretation O King and this is the decree of the Most High which is come upon my Lord the King Mat. 10. 29. Are not two sparrows s●ld for a farthing and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your father Eph. 1. 11. Who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will CHAP. II. 1. BE the more confirmed in the truth of this Observation Look not on the Will or Purpose of God as a Plant of Time but as the Eternal Root of what comes to pass in Time And good reason is there so to do for 1. The Scripture carries the Purpose of God with respect to matters beyond their present existencies in the world Jer. 1. 5. Mat. 25. 34. Rom. 9. 11. 2. The glorious Attributes of God speak another language than so as if he were not resolved on the government of the world till things have their existencies for 1. He is Omniscient from all eternity He knows matters before they exist or have an actual beeing Psal 139. ● Thou understandest my thoughts afar off Acts 15. 18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning 2. He is Omnipotent nothing resisteth his will He spake and it was done Psal 33. 9. Power belongeth to him Psal 62. 10. 3. He is Independent in his operations He lacquies not after the Creatures none of the Creatures give to him so that a new Purpose hereupon is originally framed which was not before although not declared God is no such debtor to any of the Creatures Find out the Creature to whom God is such a debtor and the debt shall be well paid Rom. 11. 35. 4. He is Vnchangeable there is not the least change in Him He is not a yesterday God purposing and