Catalogue Entry: THEM00304

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..... blotted out and ras'd

By their rebellion from the book of life. Paradise Lost, I. 362.

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...... Resolving from thenceforth

To leave them to their own polluted ways;

And one peculiar nation to select

From all the rest. Paradise Lost, XII, 109.

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...... such as thou hast solemnly elected

With gifts and graces eminently adorn'd

To some great work, thy glory-. Samson Agonistes, 679.

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According to a part of the Sublapsarian scheme, taught by St. Augustine and maintained by the Synod of Dort.

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...... in thee

As from a second root shall be restor'd

As many as are restor'd, without thee none.

Paradise Lost, III. 287.

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'Voluntas Dei in varias species distingui solet, ut absolutam et conditionatam; antecedentem et consequentem; signi et beneplaciti, &c..... Voluntas signi dicitur cum Deus verbo suo significat quid velit aut nolit ab hominibus fieri, et mandatis ejus continetur; beneplaciti vero, qua Deus apud se premit et occultat id quod vult facere.' Curcellæi Institutio ii. 9. 6, 7. 'Thomas Aquinas and his disciples frame another distinction to elude the text in Timothy (1 Tim. ii. 4.) and tell us of a will revealed, and of another hidden, which is, many times at least, contrary to that revealed..... a distinction rejected by our 17th Article, which directs us to follow, not this supposed hidden will of God, but that which is expressly declared in his word.' Glocester Ridley's Sixth Sermon on the Divinity and Operations of the Holy Ghost.

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This my long —sufferance, and my day of grace

They who neglect and scorn, shall never taste;

But hard be harden'd, blind be blinded more,

That they may stumble on, and deeper fall;

And none but such from mercy I exclude.

Paradise Lost, III. 198.

...... the will

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven

Left him at large to his own dark designs,

That with reiterated crimes he might

Heap on himself damnation, while he sought

Evil to others, and, enrag'd, might see

How all his malice serv'd but to bring forth

Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn

On man, by him seduc'd; but on himself

Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance pour'd. I. 211

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...... when God

Looking —on the earth, with approbation marks

The just man, and divulges him through heaven

To all his angels.

Paradise Regained, III. 60.

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In the original it is —qui igitur dilecti dilecturi erant, id est, credituri, eos prænovit Deus, &c. —which scarcely seems to have any sense, unless some allusion be intended to John xvi. 27. 'the Father himself loveth you,' &c. It seems more probable that dilecti has been inserted by the carelessness of the transcriber.

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Thy ransom paid, which man from death redeems,

His death for man, as many as offer'd life

Neglect not, and the benefit embrace

By faith not void of works.

Paradise Lost, XII. 424

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This is the interpretation of Hammond and Whitby, and of Wolfius, Cur. Philol. in loc. See also the Commentators quoted in Mr. Horne's note, Introduction to the Critical Study of the Scriptures Vol. II. p. 759.

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Φύσει γὰρ ἦν σώφρων καὶ τεταγμένος ταις ἐπιθυμίαις. Plutarch, in Pompeio. Derivatives from this word are used with the same metaphorical signification. ὅ παραλβὼν πολεμουμένας τὰς πόλεις, ἔξωθεν μὲν ὑπὸ πλήθους καὶ μανίας βαρβαρικῆς, ἔνδοθεν δὲ ὑπὸ στρατιωτικῆς ἀταξίας, καὶ τῆς τῶν ταξιαρχῶν πλεονεξίας Synes Epist. 62. νουθετεῖτε τοῖς ἀτάκτοις. 1 Thess. v. 14.

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Milton employs the word fitted in a similar sense in his Hist. of Britain, Book V. c. 1. 'But when God hath decreed servitude on a sinful nation, fitted by their own vices for no condition but servile, all estates of government are alike unable to avoid it.'

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...... Why should not man,

Retaining still divine similitude

In part, from such deformities be free,

And for his Maker's image sake, exempt ?

Paradise Lost, XI. 511.

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..... thou oft,

Amidst their highth of noon,

Changest thy countenance, and thy hand, with no regard

Of highest favours past

From thee on them, or them to thee of service.

Samson Agonistes, 682.

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A11 hast thou spoken as my thoughts are, all

As my eternal purpose hath decreed;

Man shall not quite be lost, but sav'd who will;

Yet not of will in him, but grace in me

Freely vouchsaf'd;.....

..... that he may know how frail

His fall'n condition is, and to me owe

All his deliverance, and to none but me.

Paradise Lost, III. 171.

See also Glocester Ridley's Sixth Sermon on the Holy Spirit, where the line of argument pursued by Milton is beautifully and powerfully enforced.

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...... Man shall find grace;

......

Happy for man, so coming; he her aid

Can never seek, once dead in sins, and lost.

Paradise Lost, III. 227.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable;

And good he made thee, but to persevere

He left it in thy power; ordain'd thy will

By nature free, not over-rul'd by fate

Inextricable, or strict necessity;

Our voluntary service he requires,

Not our necessitated; such with him

Finds no acceptance, nor can find; for how

Can hearts not free, be tried whether they serve

Willing or no, who will but what they must

By destiny, and can no other choose ?

Paradise Lost, V. 524.

'Many there be that complain of Divine Providence for suffering Adam to transgress. Foolish tongues! when God gave him reason, he gave him freedom to choose, for reason is but choosing; he had been else a mere artificial Adam, such an Adam as he is in the motions. We ourselves esteem not of that obedience, or love, or gift, which is of force; God therefore left him free, set before him a provoking object, ever almost in his eyes; herein consisted his merit, herein the right of his reward, the praise of his abstinence. Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing. Prose Works. I. 305.

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Thence faintings, swoonings of despair,

And sense of heaven's desertion.

Samson Agonistes, 631

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To prayer, repentance, and obedience due,

Though but endeavour'd with sincere intent,

Mine ear shall not be slow, mine eye not shut.

Paradise Lost, III. 191

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Some I have chosen of peculiar grace,

Elect above the rest; so is my will:

The rest shall hear me call, and oft be warn'd

Their sinful state, and to appease betimes

The incens'd Deity, while offer'd grace

Invites; for I will clear their senses dark

What may suffice, and soften stony hearts

To pray, repent, and bring obedience due.

Paradise Lost, III. 183.

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God made thee of choice his own, and of his own

To serve him; thy reward was of his grace;

Thy punishment then justly is at his will.

Paradise Lost, X. 766.

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...... to themselves

All glory arrogate, to God give none;

Rather accuse him under usual names,

Fortune and fate, as one regardless quite

Of mortal things. Paradise Regained, IV. 314.

On which passage Dunster quotes the second of the passages from the Odyssey with which Milton himself concludes this chapter.