Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht

SECT. 10.

Obj. GOd may be also said to harden the heart, because he dispose∣eth thereof, and directeth it to such an end as he himselfe propoundeth.

Ans. 'Tis true, as God ordaineth the end, so hath he also or∣dained the meanes to the end, as Act. 2. 23. where Christ is said to be delivered by the determinate counsell, and fore-knowledge of God, yet was he betrayed, and delivered by Judas, whose act in some respects is said to be the Lords, because he so disposed of it, to affect and accomplish his glorious Counsel, in redeeming his elect, by the death of his Son. But this cannot safely be affirmed, that the Lord should be said to doe these things, which he ordain∣eth and disposeth; for God so disposed of that Spiritual Cumbat, which the Apostle Paul found in his flesh, that it tended further to Gods glory, and the manifestation of his power, as the Lord saith, My grace is sufficient for thee, my power is made perfect

through weaknes, yet God was not the worker of that temptation but the Apostle imputeth it unto Satan, 2 Cor. 12. 7. Like as in the Creation, God made light, but made not darknesse, but only* 1.1 made a seperation betwixt the light and darknesse, it being only a defect of light, Gen. 1. 14. so the workes of darknesse, God cannot be said to make, only he disposeth, and ordereth them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Sin a defect of good, as darknesse of light.