VERS. 13, 14. [Verse. 13.14.] Therefore speake I to them in Para∣bles: because they seeing see not: and hearin•• ••hey heare not, neither doe they understand. And in the•• is fulfilled the Prophesie of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall
Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.
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- Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London.
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"Theologicall questions, dogmaticall observations, and evangelicall essays, vpon the Gospel of Jesus Christ, according to St. Matthew Wherein, about two thousand six hundred and fifty necessary, and profitable questions are discussed; and five hundred and eighty speciall points of doctrine noted; and five hundred and fifty errours confuted, or objections answered: together with divers arguments, whereby divers truths, and true tenents are confirmed. By Richard VVard, sometimes student in the famous vniversities of Cambridge in England: St. Andrews in Scotland: and Master of Arts of both the kingdoms; and now a preacher in the famous city of London." In the digital collection Early English Books Online Collections. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14721.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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heare, but not understand, and seeing, yee shall see, and not perceive.
Three things are ordinarily objected from these verses, which I will but briefly touch; namely,
[Object. 1] First, by these words, God seemes to be made the Author of sinne.
[Argum.] Hee is not the Author of sinne, but of just pu∣nishment, which he inflicts upon the obstinate, sometimes in a hidden and secret, but alwayes in a just judgement; for the judgements of the Lord are sometimes secret, but alwayes most just.
[Object. 2] Secondly, Reprobates seeme here to be excu∣sed, because they are so blinded from above, that they cannot see.
[Answ.] Reprobates are not by this excused, because the Lord blinds none, but onely those who doe not see; that is, those who cannot, and will not see, God by a just judgement doth further close their eyes, that they shall never bee able to see: For God blinds their eyes onely
I. By a deniall of light unto them. And,
II. By a forsaking, and leaving of them in their blindnesse. And,
III. By giving them over to the power of Sa∣than, and their owne desires.
[Object. 3] Thirdly, these verses are repugnant to those Scriptures, which tell us, that God would have all men to repent, and all to be saved.
[Answ.] Those places, and the like shew, what God universally doth approve, and allow of, not what he will doe unto all, or worke in all. These ver∣ses specially shew what God will doe to those, who are contumacious, and obstinate. Now ex∣traordinary judgements are not repugnant to the ordinary meanes of salvation, Pareus, s. fol. 733.