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 . d, tho it 0f Sin tswere true,thatSin was not decreed, net by theor forefeen by God *, it was bow- Divine-ever committed by bis Per million : Per mifFor feeing he permitted Man to Sin,-A71-it is plain he confented to its Commifiion: I aniwer*no, it is not plain, nor certain -, but ought to as a notorious falihood j for that, as hathbeen already fhown i, the Idea of Sin is
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 . d, tho it 0f Sin tswere true,thatSin was not decreed, net by theor forefeen by God *, it was bow- Divine-ever committed by bis Per million : Per mifFor feeing he permitted Man to Sin,-A71-it is plain he confented to its Commifiion: I aniwer*no, it is not plain, nor certain -, but ought to as a notorious falihood j for that, as hathbeen already fhown i, the Idea of Sin is an Ideaof Repugnance to the Divine Confent. ? The af-firming any thing .to be done without the Divine,Confent may perhaps found harfh to fome: But thisis not what. I do Affirm : Sin is not a Reality, orThing*, but a Nothing,; than. Nothing,and had no need to be eflahlinYct or Wilid by God sIf a Creature3 that naturally ancj .eflentially is No-thing relolve to Sin, propofmg itieif as Principle andEnd of all ks Conduct, as, in virtue of Liberty, itmay *7 it acts herein not by or according to, but a-gainft the-Will of God, which, is the root andprin*upk only of reality and perfection * In a word0. y2 That God hath not permitted Sin. Chsp. VI. whatever is good and real, is by the Will of God \ Cy^VNJ but whatever is Evil is without it*, in which Senfe Tome have explained St. John Ch. i. v. 3. Xco^U If. God n. That Man fhould Act, and conduct himfetf bywins and a principle of Liberty is Gods Eftablifhrnent andpermits Oecree. But this is to be under flood with a limita-ry Crea tjon on\y t0 r^ certain fonds of Beings and of Ob-f ht ie^£> -r,om which, when [becaufe left free and un-J£*n limited by God to qualifie him to injoy in the no-conlent kleft manner, the mod perfective Objects] he vo-that it luntarily difapplyd his Faculties: God, who decreedfhould him to be free, left him to act according to his Na*tend to tare, t. e. freely : The Creature is free by the Divinen
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