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 . e with which they are endued, they couldi:Ot then have finned, ft is very nnjuit to call Godthe occafion of our Sins, becauie the Nature of Things-arc diallilhd b^ him, and becaufe without thefe Na-tures A General Account of the Manner, &T. 69 tures Sin had not been committed. Only fuch things 9h3_PYl,Vare properly Occafions of it, as are mifopplyd and mifimployd by the Creature •, n
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 . e with which they are endued, they couldi:Ot then have finned, ft is very nnjuit to call Godthe occafion of our Sins, becauie the Nature of Things-arc diallilhd b^ him, and becaufe without thefe Na-tures A General Account of the Manner, &T. 69 tures Sin had not been committed. Only fuch things 9h3_PYl,Vare properly Occafions of it, as are mifopplyd and mifimployd by the Creature •, not fuch as are givenbv God, and conftituted for a good Defign and Sun proved to many Heathens an Occafion ofIdolatry, but it cannot be faid, that God created itto be an Occafion of it. It is an Occafion of Idolatryas it is abufed by Man, not as it is created by like manner Man, by abufe, hath made his Li-berty an occafion of committing Sin, but God, whocreated it, gave no occafion to it. From him comesnothing but Good, Holinefs, Purity and Perfection ^nor can any Creature, when it Sins, fay he was theOccafion of it. CHAP. VIII. A General Account of the Manner in whichSin was H E Creature being, notwithftand-1- Sin iting all Gods Preventing Graces, «? theWrf,naturally Labile, as hath been al-™*°F;?ready proved at large*, and be-1- ,£,.*ing capable of Sinning, and of tef^f1*parting from its End by Free- £* $1will: By putting this Will in Aft 4rra^ejand Execution, it gives birth at once to the Idea and yy ^ of this Monfter Sin: Or rather, thi will ^W/ tjtfitfelf is it, confidered as not turned towards itsculpMeEnd, and not directing its Faculties thereto: We notwith-muft not here confound the Will which is Sin,ftan4ing>with the Reflex Intentional Will of Sinning. GreatDifference there is between the Aft of Sin, and or Motives of ir, which are not the Sin itfelf,but Inducements to if, there being none, not eventhe Devi
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