An essay on the origin of evil . in Chrijl, is fall offueet, pleafAnti and unfpeak^blc Comfort to godlyPer J onsi i as well becatifc it doth greatly efla- hlijjj their Faith of eternal Salvation^ to be enjoyedthro* Chriftt as becauje it doth fervently ki»dlc their Love toward God. • ^ndyct -ive miift receive Gods Promijes, as thej he generally Jet forth to us in holyScripture. Here you lee the two Schemes join dtogether: And we are alowd all the Comfort thatthe Confideration of our being predeftinated canaifoid us: and at the fame time we are given tounuaftand that the Promifes of God are gene
An essay on the origin of evil . in Chrijl, is fall offueet, pleafAnti and unfpeak^blc Comfort to godlyPer J onsi i as well becatifc it doth greatly efla- hlijjj their Faith of eternal Salvation^ to be enjoyedthro* Chriftt as becauje it doth fervently ki»dlc their Love toward God. • ^ndyct -ive miift receive Gods Promijes, as thej he generally Jet forth to us in holyScripture. Here you lee the two Schemes join dtogether: And we are alowd all the Comfort thatthe Confideration of our being predeftinated canaifoid us: and at the fame time we are given tounuaftand that the Promifes of God are generallycondiional; and that notwithllanding our beliefof F-redeRination, we can have no hope of obtainingthe bcinefit of them, but by fulfilling the I hope I have explaind them in fuch a way, asfhews tiiem tobe confident inthemfelve^, and of greatule towards making us holy here, and happy hereaftero. SER MON ON THE FALL of MAN. By his GraceWilliam Lord Archbifhop of Dublin. The Second Edition. ( 5 ) GEN. IL Ver. i6> 17. And the Lord God commanded the JWan, faying^ of everyTree of the Garden thoH mayft freely eat: But of the Tree of the Knowledge pf Good and Evil not eat of it: For in the Day that thou eatejithereoft thou jhalt furely die. DAILY Expererience fhews us that there ismuch Ignorance, Folly and Mifery jamongfl:Men; that we have a prolpecS: of thefe as foon aswe begin to think; and that nothing more im-bitters Life than that View. The Beafts are fick,and want and die as well as JVlen; but yet are notfo miferable, becaufe they fee no farther than theprefent, and therefore are not tormented with theremembrance of what is paft, or the fear of whatis to come. Whereas Men are apprizd that Painsand Difeafes, Difappointments and Death are be-fore them, and have not the Uke certainty of onefingle Ad of Pleafure to ballance the difmal Confi-deration. This fhould mak
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