Melius Inquirendum; Or, an Answer to a Book of Edward Cockson, MIS-Intituled, Rigid Quakers Cruel Persecutors Being a Review of the Controversie, Betw - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1706. Excerpt: ... low such Examples, which gives a Divine Sect. it. Right to those Examples, and not barely the Examples themselves. E. C. Ibid. To conclude', above all hear the Man aster Gods own Heart, who thus cries out; Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my Hands to War, and my Fingers to Fight, P/al. 144. 1. What Mr. V. Doth God teach Men to Sin? Answ. David's Action in this Cafe was not for our Imitation, any further, than as it had something Typical in it of that Spiritual War, wherein the Righteous have been ingaged in every Generation, and which more particularly respects those of the Pure GospelDispensation. For as David himself was a Type of Christ, so his Wars were Figurative also, of that Warfare, which is not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit only. In which to War, and their Fingers to Fight, when they are inabled by the Grace of God to ingage in the Lamb's War, against the Great Uragon, that Old Serpent, called the Devil and Satan. To E. C's. Question then, Doth God teach Men to Sin? I Answer, no, in no wise; and yet it followeth not that War is Justifiable by the Evangelical Law. For tho' it was Lawful, as I lhew'd before, under the Old Cove; nant-Dispensation j yet under the New tha Case is altered. But Sect. 11. But seeing R C. hath started this Question, Doth God teach Men to Sin? whereuntol have Answered in the Negative j it may not be improper to let him know, that some have held the Affirmative, and those of his own Communion too. 'God, faith Archb. Usher, Sum and Substance of CM-c jn his secret wm hafh-uftl fc$5? p-93'Edlt- Decreed the Evil Works of the Wicked. lb. $o. e Q0£ according to his good Pleasure hath 'most certainly decreed every (both) Thing and ASion, whether Past, Present, or to 1 Come; and not only the Things...

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