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 . the Thoughts, orSpiritual A<fts that intervened *, and which Tome im-pure to the Divine Conduct -, others to his imme-diate Impulfe and Operations, others to eternal Fore-fight and Decree. All which are horrible Blafphe-mies, proceeding from the ignorance and darknefsof the Mind of Man •, and from that miferably de-praved Reafon, which, by difapplymg it felf fromGod, was filld wit
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 . the Thoughts, orSpiritual A<fts that intervened *, and which Tome im-pure to the Divine Conduct -, others to his imme-diate Impulfe and Operations, others to eternal Fore-fight and Decree. All which are horrible Blafphe-mies, proceeding from the ignorance and darknefsof the Mind of Man •, and from that miferably de-praved Reafon, which, by difapplymg it felf fromGod, was filld with Confufion and Chimeras: Ig-norant they are .of that Liberty which God hathgiven to Man, by which to govern all things thatWere fubjetted to him. CHAP. XIII. Of the Effects of Sin in Man, and in Nature* S Light, and Joys ineffable, arecertain Confequences of Holineisand Virtue: So Darknefs, Sorrowand endlefs Mifcry are naturalEffects of Sin :, and both thefe Ef-fects are infinite in Degree, inVariety and in Duration : TheWfilfCB°e Fundamental Reafonsof thefe Effects, with referencetrenatu to re FacultjcsDivine, have been totfthd upon in I. Of the I. EffeclscfSin, thatthey donot pro-ceed fromthe Divine. r&i Corfiqvelites 6j £*>;. rite Of the Effects of Sin in Man, and in Nature. 129- the * Oeconomy of the Creation, which I commend Chip XIHto the Confideration of my Render : I will here fpeak t/VNJa little of them with reference to the inferior Facivl- ?*• !4>ties, and to external Nature-, and confider briefly I5*how things had gone in cafe the Redeemer had notintervened-, and Man. after , had been leftto himfelf, as the Rebel Angel was: And herelprd-mife an Obfervation, That it felf is thepure effect ,0? the Will of Man, Without any Inter-vention on the part of Odd .\ So the Effects and Con-fequences which I (hall fpeak of, do naturally followfrom that Sin without his Intervention; For as Sinis not, fo neither can its Confequences. be the effect
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