Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: S. S. Lib. Arbit. My counsel shall stand, and God would have all men to I will do all my pleasure, Isa. be saved, but, compelled with the xlvi. 10. stubborn malice of some, he changeth his purpose, and will have them to perish, Armin. I am the Loed, I change not, As men may change them- Mal. iii. 6. selves from believers to unbeliev ers, so God's determination concerning them changeth, Rem. With the Father of lights is All God's decrees are not no variableness, neither shadow peremptory, but some condition- of turning, James i. 17; Exod. ate and changeable, Sermon at iii. 13, 14; Ps. cii. 27; 2 Tim. ii. Oxford. 13; 1 Sam. xv. 29; Isa. xiv. 27; Job xxiii. 13; Ps. cxv. 3. CHAPTER III. Of the prescience or foreknowledge of God, and how it is questioned and overthrown by the Arminians. The prescience or foreknowledge of God hath not hitherto, in express terms, been denied by the Arminians, but only questioned and overthrown by consequence, inasmuch as they deny the certainty and unchangeableness of his decrees, on which it is founded. It is not a foreknowledge of all or any thing which they oppose, but only of things free and contingent, and that only to comply with their formerly-exploded error, that the purposes of God concerning such things are temporal and mutable; which obstacle being once removed, the way is open how to ascribe the presidentship of all human actions to omnipotent contingency, and her sire free-will. Now, we call that contingent which, in regard of its next and immediate cause, before it come to pass, may be done or may be not done; as, that a man shall do such a thing to-morrow, or any time hereafter, which he may choose whether ever he will do or no. Such things as these are free and changeable, in respect of men, their i...