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Title:  Charis kai eirēnē, or, A pacifick discourse of Gods grace and decrees in a letter of full accordance / written to the reverend and most learned Dr. Robert Sanderson by Henry Hammond ... ; to which are annexed the extracts of three letters concerning Gods prescience reconciled with liberty and contingency ; together with two sermons preached before these evil times, the one to the clergy, the other to the citizens of London.
Author: Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.
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to the undoubted truth of each of the Pro∣positions, and do it also upon the very same three grounds (of Scripture, Reason, and Experience) which you mention, need not the intercession of our friendship to render it impossible to give you any the least trouble of so much as explaining your sence in any of these.§. 5. Next, when you resolve, that all theThree heads of difficulty.difficulty is about the (referring that to no more then three heads) 1. How to reconcile the certain futurition of what God foreseeth, with the liberty of the rational creature, and the contingency of casual effects, as they proceed from inferiour causes. 2. In what manner or measure the effe∣ctual Grace of God cooperateth and concurreth with the free will of man, in the conversion of a sinner. 3. How to cut so even a thread, as to take the whole of what we do amiss to our selves, and leave the whole glory of what we do well to his grace.] You are again as secure as any amulet can make you, that this resolution of abbreviating the Contro∣versies, and confining them to these few heads, shall never engage you in the least degree of De∣bate: And then I shall challenge you to feign, how it can remain possible, without contradicting ones self (which still is not quarrelling with you) to en∣gage you in any uneasie contention, unless it be on one of these three heads,, and when I have by promise obliged my self, which now I do, not to raise any Dispute, or attempt to ensnare or intan∣gle you in any of these three, you have then no∣thing to retract but your fears, to which if I tell you, you cannot adhere, discerning a sure and near period to that which you apprehended endless, this is all the victory I shall project, or be capable of in this matter.0