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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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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Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ...,
1683.
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Free will and determinism.
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"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 ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34535.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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4. The indetermination of Mans Will doth not infer the Vncertainty of God's Decree.

A Thing may be certainly Future that is under the unde∣termined liberty of the Will. Mans Power and Liber∣ty of doing otherwise than God hath decreed, doth no more infer a possibility of the frustration of his Decrees, than his Power and Liberty of doing otherwise, than God hath fore∣known he will do, doth infer an uncertainty of Gods fore∣knowledg. Now it is undeniable, that God can certainly foreknow, that a man will do that which he hath power not to do; and that he will not do that which he hath power to do. Adam had power to resist the Temptation, which God foreknew he would yield to.

The Power it self to do otherwise than as God hath decreed, is foreknown and decreed; and it is also foreknown and decreed, That the said Power shall not do otherwise, God's Decree is according to his Foreknowledg, which is to us in∣comprehensible.

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