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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39377	An Abstract of some letters to an eminent learned person concerning the excellency of the Book of common-prayer, &c.		1679 (1679)	Wing E7; ESTC R23206	15,276	30

continuance of being c. And when we expresly Ask for these According to the Mind of Christ We Virtually Ask for Holiness or Purity of Heart The Consummation whereof is the Fullness of Life and Glory All Desires of Holiness are Acts of Holiness Consider's with Respect to their Efficacy to make way for furhter Act or Tendencies of Heart unto God The Free Mercy of GOD in JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD is the Root and Principle of all that Good which groweth in Us or if you will in which We Grow the Sense of which is implyed in all Motions of the Heart acceptable unto God By Absolutely I mean but what we are to understand by First in the Gospel where Our Saviour sayes Seek ye First the Kingdom of God c. i. e. Chiefly and Principally so as to Ask nothing else but in Subordin ation thereunto and upon Condition if it conduce to our furtherance in the Ways of Holiness which Lead unto Everlasting Glory I do still most confidently Averr that this is a most Dangerous Disease of the Soul to Conceit that any thing can be Directly and in its own Nature the Hind'rance of Our Attainment to farther Degrees of Grace save only the Naughtiness of Our own Hearts But say you Must we not carefully avoid that which Indirectly hinders also I Answer We must Avoid or Set our Heart against nothing but what we find to be the Will of God Reveal'd in his Word that we should Loath or be Averse from Any thing which for ought we know God will bring to pass as to the Depriving us of any particular Means of Grace we must endeavour to prevent by all wayes of Duty to God and Man which we Apprehend probable to prove Successfull for the Prevention thereof But we must have a Care that our Heart be Mov'd against this which for ought we know God will effect for the Glory of His Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with Exception as I spake in my last You say the penal withholding of the Operations of the Spirit is a Direct Hindrance and in its own Nature If it be True that whatsoever God is the Author of can never be in any wise Evil to us but only by our Wrong or Perverse apprehensions of it then I suppose you will grant that this Proposition of yours bears no Force against me And whether this be a Truth or no I shall referr you to Consider by taking a Review of what I have already Written of the Divine Goodness And by your most Serious and unprejudic'd Judgement of what I shall say hereafter in giving my Reflexions on your Animadversions on my saying that Gods Will is the Same with Infinite Goodness c. The Good Lord Lift up the Light of His Countenance upon Us that we may at length attain to the Full Enjoyment of the Way the Truth and the Life I shall here present you some more of my Apprehensions of the IMMENSE Influence of the Divine Goodness upon All and Every Part of the Creation I am Conscious to my self of the smalness of my Abilities to Express such a Truth in any way answerable to the Excellency and Importance thereof But some Sparklings of that Light viz. the Notion I have of the IMMENSITY of the Divine Goodness which from my Youth up has given me far greater Satisfactions than I should ever have had in all the Learning in the World without it some Sparklings I trust you will perceive in these following Lines You say to these words of mine Gods Will is the Same with infinite Goodness Very true but the Question is what that Goodness is I say it is not a Will to communicate to Creatures as much Good as he can For then the World had been Eternal c. I Answer that the Goodness of God is Himself the INFINITY of Goodness Wisdom Power of all Excellency and Perfection 'T was not Essential to Him to Create i. e. not necessary for the INFINITY of Being to Produce out of Himself these Finite Essences But they being Produc'd by His Power according to His Wisdom i. e. the Councell of His INFINITELY Good Will 't is Essential or Necessary to His being INFINITE to be ALL in them All. The Divine Power being INFINITE such Expressions as these as many Creatures as God can make c. can in no wise import any Reality to the Vnderstanding To your saying that All Saints and Angels would have the same Degree of Glory I Answer that there is no Want in Heaven no Absence or Privative Not-Being of any Degree of Glory or Communicated Divine Goodness there is nothing but Refulgency of the GLORIOVS DIVINE NATVRE That one Creature should be better to It self and to other Creatures is most Rational to conceive it being no way Inconsistent with the Notion of the One Infinite Goodness As for Damnation this I say So far as it imports nothing else but what is of God It is in its own Nature altogether Good It becomes Evil only to those to whom the Infinity of Love is a Consuming Fire There 's nothing Absolutely and in its own Nature Evil but SIN But of all Instances you say there 's non that confutes me more than the permission of Sin To this I Answer that by Permission of Sin we must not conceive any thing of which we may say It is of God but only His making such Creatures whose Nature implies a Possibility of Sinning and the continuing them in Being after they have Sinned There is say you an Higher thing in God which is his Goodness even his Infinite Perfection and Love to himself which is to be communicated according to his Wisdom and Free Will and not as a natural necessary emanation from his Essence to the utmost of his absolute Power To this I Answer first that Vtmost Power is in no wise to be spoken of God whose Power is INFINITE Secondly I do conceive that your Notion here is not Contrary to mine though it come somewhat short of it I think your Meaning is not Opposite to what I Understand by the Diffusiveness of the Divine Goodness but only to any Conceit of the Limitation of the Divine Power which no Creature is Able to Resist There can be no Impediment to It ab extra c. but I add neither ab Intra call it Negative or Self-Limiting or what you please Therefore I say again 't is Essential to Infinite Goodness to fill the Capacities of His Creatures c. which I think I shall clearly Demonstrate thus That which does not Fill all Created Capacities is not Infinite Therefore c. But perhaps you will say is not a Sinner Capable of being Sanctified I Answer that Sin is the Creatures making It self Uncapable for the present of the Divine Goodness through a false Conceit that the Creator is not All in All. For I hold yea I know and am perfectly Assur'd that this Conceit is Virtually if not Formally implyed in all Sin or