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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52204	The middle way of predetermination asserted. Between the Dominicans and Jesuites, Calvinists and Arminians, or, A scriptural enquiry into the influence and causation of God in and unto humane actions; expecially such as are sinfull.	Humfrey, John, 1621-1719.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; W. M.	1679 (1679)	Wing H3692A; Wing M95B; ESTC R10732	43,527	48

his Creature to Endless Torment for that which it could never Help or that he shou●d make that a Crime which himself was the Authour or Cause of or Predet●rmined it to Is God Vnrighteous when he taketh Vengeance absit God forbid saith the Apostle how then shall he Judge the World Rom. 3.6 God may bestow freely his Mercy and special Favour where he pleases but not so the Effects of his Vindictive Justice and Wrath there must be Cause for it or it were not becoming his Righteousness and Holiness it were a Wrong and Injustice to the Creature as himself doth adm●t and is willing to render accountable to any one that shall Challenge him therein Ezek 18.25 29. Isa 5.3 Now it 's matter of Fact that the Inquest shall be about in the day of our Account Mat. 25.25 30 35. Rom. 3.6 1 Pet. 1.17 the substratum of Sin the same as in all Humane Courts of Judicature If then God be the Efficient Cause of the Fact if he Premoveth men and Predetermineth them to the Entity and giveth a Futurition and Existence to their Acts of Murder Adultery c. rendering them necessary necessitate causali motiva on what foot of Account then shall we fix the Equity of his tak●ng vengeance on them for the same Shall not the Judge of all the Earth do right Should a Judg so proceeding be like unto God VVhat colour of Justice were there or of meerness in the Recompence Heb. 2.2 Arg. 8. The Predeterminant Hypothesis It shaketh the Foundation of Revelation the Authority of the Scriptures the Rule of Gods Judgment It maketh God the Suggester of Lyes as well as of Truth Then did not the false Prophets deceive the People when they said Thus saith the Lord Jer. 23.17 for it was ens and yet God himself saith that it was the Vision of their own Heart and not from him v. 16. The Question is what according to them God did more in the Inspiration of the true Prophets than in the false in linea Physica as they speak Arg. 9. If God Predetermineth all the Operations of Man as is affrmed there is no Reason nor Foundation left for Civil Government Oeconomical or Political It were not only Ludicrous but highly Injurious It were a horrid thing for Man not to be aware of it whatever God might do as they say Humane Lawes do presuppose the Lapse or Disablement of Man and with one consent it 's agreed that no man shall be put to the loss of his Life or Member penally for Omitting or doing ought that is not within reach of humane Power to determine concerning If all the World be not cheated therein What Man should be so Irrational as to Reprove or Correct Child or Servant yea his Beast for that which in good Earnest he stands convinced that he could not prevent The Fact or Omition I mean not the anomie only which results from the same plain People understand well enough what I say Mat. 21.29 30. Arg. 10. It denieth to man his Essential Nature and specifick form the Natural Image of God in genere physico wherein he was made Gen. 9.6 which is to have Dominion over his own Acts A Power of Willing or Nilling this or the contrary in such sense as hath been opened What is a Natural Faculty or Active power but an Ability connate to the Subject founded in nature rendering it potent to such an Effect Actually so or that it may and can reduce into Act Voluntas nostra nec voluntas esset nisi esset in nostra potestate Porrò quia est in nostra potestate libera est saith Augustine Yea the former Hypothesis debaseth Man beneath the whole creation of God It 's not denied but that in the virtue of their first Qualities and active Principles supposing the General concurse of God other Creatures can Operate The fire can heat and VVater cool and they specifie their Operation also by virtue of their proper forms not that the first Cause is hot or maketh hot in the presence of the one and cold in the presence of the other By Ingrafture or Inoculation Man may specifie the active Influence of the first cause of what Nature it shall give the fruit of such a Stock to be Never to be altered without a Miracle And better were it to move necessarily as the Stone downwards or Fire upwards than to be moved universally like a clock or an Engine not in all points but as to the Effect without an Intrinsick Power unto the contrary Event especially in a matter of Offence and Punishment of which our question is and with which a natural necessity is by all men granted inconsistent and would totally excuse But what needeth to add any more Finally the aforesaid notion is not only subversive of all Religion Policie and humanity in its genuine consequents as is before proved if I be able to judge But it 's Expresly repugnant to several plain Texts of Scripture As to Name no more 1 John 2.16 All that is in this World as the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eyes and the Pride of Life is not of the Father not the existence of them but is of this World or of the Devil John 8.44 who is a Lyer and when he speaketh a Lye saith our Saviour speaketh de suo of his own is the Author of it So Jam. 1.13 14. Let no man say that he is tempted of God to Evil. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own Lust That is an Entity yet Sin and the Conceiver of it both Father and Mother of that which when it hath finished bringeth forth Death Opposed to Grace which is from above v. 17. chap. 3.15 17. Psal 7.14 Jer. 7.31 The Lord give us Understanding herein and a due sense thereof upon our Souls W.M. FINIS Psal 137.7 Neh. 4 1●

of Religion to depend on the stating of the same Some affirm a Physical predetermination of God of all and every the Acts and Operations of man such Physical precurse and efficient pre-exciting and determining influence they assert to accompany and to be necessary also to the specification of any Act whatsoever whether good or evil as that without which the Creature could never act or determine its self at all To me it seems hard to make out whether there be any such way of Gods determination of man as that termed Physical in Contradistinction to Moral though here as to good I would mo●t readily admit it for to evil I do peremptorily deny it I mean to good actions for it's non-sense to speak of Predetermination Physical or Moral either to ought but the act or action which is good or evil upon an account Adventitious and Extrinsecal to its self as related to Law What it is I say that God doth in the Conversion of a sinner as to the way of working that first Turn to himself seems to me difficult to find out Joh. 3.8 If such a Physical operation there be terminating on the entity of the Soul it must as well reach the body too the Ministerial and Organical parts which are also said to be sanctified 2 Thes 5.23 it may consist in the suscitation or elevation of its natural faculties rendring them capable of taking in a new Impression or irradiation from the Word and Spirit to which the soul was disabled before which some understand by Vivification or Quickning 1 Cor. 15.45 Eph. 2.1 and opening the Heart Act. 16.14 and Understanding Luk. 24.45 Bending also and applying the Faculty to the Object in order to its receiving of the Impress and stamp thereof upon it Job 33.16 the Signature of Truth upon the Mind and Heart all which I deny not but still evident it is That God worketh not any Moral Change on the Understanding otherwise than objectively also by offering Reason to it or proposing that before it which invincibly bindeth it to an admittance thereof Hos 11.4 and the Gospel is the deepest Reason and Faith the most solid Understanding Mat. 13.44 45. Isa 1.18 the Word of God is the Seed of the New Birth out of all question Jam. 1.18 1 Pet. 1.23 and that as proposed to the mind 1 Cor. 4.15 and intertained there Jam. 1.21 Nor doth God work on the Will or Affections or Executive power in Conversion otherwise than Mediante ratione by the intervention of Reason 1 Cor. 2.4 not by any Physical attingency immediately but by Moral Suasion and Objective Proposal by the Mind the eye of the Soul God shall perswade Japhet Gen 9.27 By objective Proposal and moral Suasion I do not intend onely that of God Externally in his Word Commanding Perswading Counselling c. or in and by the Ministry of Man but moreover his Internal application to the Soul in the Ministry of the Word or otherwise where yet the Word is the Instrument in the hand of the Spirit working in a Moral way efficiently too in a Sense yet not modo Physico after the manner of a real Impulse or proper Physical Action or Causation God knoweth how to reach the Reason and Elective Faculty the main Springs of the Soul and how to fasten a Nail there Eccl. 12.11 a fit Word spoken on his Wheeles Prov. 25.11 how to catch the Soul e're it is aware Luk. 5.10 to allure and draw Cant. 1.4 not motu physico by proper physical determination I take it but by convincing Reason and Teaching Instructing with a strong hand Isa 8.11 Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father cometh unto me Joh. 6.44 45. is made Willing Psal 110.3 the Stony Heart all Prepossession and Aversation against God and Godliness is removed Ezek. 36.26 and its sense of things is changed Rom. 8.5 and the new man is put on viz. in a Moral sense Eph. 4.24 the propension and inclination of the Subject altered and changed and become a radicated Principle in the Soul disposing it unto Holiness If the Devil can so far overmatch the Understanding of man when by God left to his delusions that an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an effectual working is ascribed to him 2 Thes 2 9. Whom yet all acknowledge to work only morally and objectively 1 King 22.21 Who can say but that God who is more intimate to man than he is to himself can so accommodate his Word and follow it by Internal suggestion so fit it as a key to the he●●t of the sinner fast lo●ked against him as to shoot aside the bolt the d●ssenting power and to overperswade and invincibly determine him to ●●●●o●●osse repudiaere an mpossi●ility of withstanding any longer the Call of C●rist or to a free yet certain entertainment of it without such a physical influx as some insist so much upon flecting the will and predetermining 〈◊〉 in its operation and specification of its Acts in a way contradisti●ct to that we are speaking of and wherein it is not concerned The Natural faculties of the soul its powers of understanding reasoning assent●ng willing and its affections of loving hating c. are out of doubt à primà causâ from God as the first cause who giveth Being to all things and the exertion of those powers into act in line â physicâ is from him they are dependent Beings and cannot reduce themselves into act or exercise without his influence or assistance And that in the way of physi●al concurse and cooperat●on before and after conversion the same Act. 26.22 and moreover it 's with me out of question that the Lord doth anticipate and prevent the soul in a more than ordinary way in its first Turn to him Jer. 31.18 2 Tim. 2.25 rectifying all the powers of the soul the mind will affections c. Turning them to their right Object and d●sposing them to their right Use and End that he specifieth and determineth the souls Acts and operations in conversion which is their modification as well as concurreth to their Entity or enableth to their existence in the general as acts or actions The question only is whether this determination of the natural powers of the soul to a beleivi●g in God a liking loving willing chusing of the things of God or of the Spirit directly opposite to the channel wherein the soul in the egress or exercise of those powers or acts ran before that whilst it believed the Devil rather than God liked and preferred the world and the pleasing of the flesh above the pleasing of God loved sin and hated strict piety whether I say God doth change the course of the soul and determine its operations as before I mean give to will and to do yea effectually cause so to do by any physical Precurse or Predetermination distinct or different from the power which he lendeth to enable the creature to all and every its natural motions and operations or which himself evermore exorteth