A humble endeavour of some plain and brief explication of the decrees and operations of God, about the free actions of men, more especially of the operations of divine grace written by Mr. John Corbet ...

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Title: A humble endeavour of some plain and brief explication of the decrees and operations of God, about the free actions of men, more especially of the operations of divine grace written by Mr. John Corbet ...
Author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
Publication: London :: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ...,; 1683.
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Subject terms: Free will and determinism.
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11. Of Gods Eternal Prescience of Sin.

GOd doth Foresee whatsoever is Future, and of determi∣nate verity, by the meer Infinity and Eternity of his Un∣derstanding. And no other Cause is to be supposed ne∣cessary to his Foreknowledg of sin.

That there can be no Futurity, of a determinate Verity, the Causes whereof are undeterminate, must be proved by the Asserters thereof. That a thing will be, sufficeth to the truth of its Futurity, without consideration from what Cause it will be. And who can say that Futurity is not by it self intelligible, or that God cannot Foreknow what a Crea∣ture, acting freely and contingently, will do? Let it be noted, that the thing under consideration is, what the Infinity of the Divine Understanding can reach unto.