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Title:  The remaining discourses, on the attributes of God Viz. his Goodness. His mercy. His patience. His long-suffering. His power. His spirituality. His immensity. His eternity. His incomprehensibleness. God the first cause, and last end. By the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Being the seventh volume; published from the originals, by Ralph Barker, D.D. chaplain to his Grace.
Author: Tillotson, John, 1630-1694.
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and do not cut them off upon the first Provocation, but give them a space and opportunity of repentance, and use all proper means and argu∣ments to bring them to repentance, and be ready to afford his Grace to excite good resolutions in them, and to second and assist them, and they refuse and resist all this; their wilful Obstinacy and Impenitency is as cul∣pable, and God's Goodness and Pa∣tience as much to be acknowledged, as if God did not foresee the abuse of it; because his fore-sight and know∣ledge of what they would do, laid no necessity upon them to do what they did.If a Prince had the priviledge of fore-knowledge as God hath, and did certainly foresee, that a great ma∣ny of his Subjects would certainly incur the penalty of his Laws, and that others would abuse his goodness and clemency to them; yet if he would govern them like free and reasonable Creatures, he ought to make the same wise Laws to restrain their exorbitan∣cy, and to use the same clemency in all cases that did fairly admit of it, as if he did not at all foresee what they 0