The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . lmwe have God make him to perfevere in his refufal ? orrather make him not perfevere a free felf-determiningAgent? Ifthefe be our Notions of Perfevering Gracelet us place it among the reft of the School Fictions,without deducing particularly the train of Abfurdi-ties which it is pregnant with. D 3 CHAP. 5« How God hath the Idea of Sin. CHAP. IV. That Sin was not from the Divine Decre
The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . lmwe have God make him to perfevere in his refufal ? orrather make him not perfevere a free felf-determiningAgent? Ifthefe be our Notions of Perfevering Gracelet us place it among the reft of the School Fictions,without deducing particularly the train of Abfurdi-ties which it is pregnant with. D 3 CHAP. 5« How God hath the Idea of Sin. CHAP. IV. That Sin was not from the Divine before its Commifjton God had not theIdea of it. How God hath the Idea of Sin. I If Sin was de-creed byGod, itwould ei-ther notbe Sw, orGod him-. 11T there are other Objectionsand Complaints of greater Con-fequence and Extent: Some Menpretend that God permitted Sin,ji and eon fen ted at leaft to its Com-miffion, when he might, had hepleafed, have not permitted it.[elf would Others pretend, he not only permitted, but decreedhave fin- it & and that, antecedent to this Decree, he was in-ned. different to Will, or not will the Commiffion of very imperfect Knowledge of God, and of the Na-ture of his Decree, his Will and Aft, will convincens fully, that God cannot decree Sin, nor confent to*Eccluf. its Commiffion, * He hath commanded no Man to doi$. 20. Wickedly, nor given any Man licence to Sin. \ HetPf» S* Shath no plcafwe in Wickednefs. If Sin was an effectof the Divine Decree, it would then be agreeable andconform thereto ^ and confequently a Real, Good,Powerful, Happy and Beauteous Being, as partakingof the Properties of the Divine Decrees, the Idea ofwhich contains nothing but what is conform unto,and reprefentative o
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