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The Revival and Rejection of an Old Traditional Heresy Or, the Doctrine of God Decreeing All Sin Examined and Refuted
The Revival and Rejection of an Old Traditional Heresy Or the Doctrine of God Decreeing All Sin Examined and Refuted Author:John Benson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SECTION IV. " And they shall afflict them four hundred yeart.' -- Gen, xv, 13. Such as advocate a Sin-ordaining sovereignty, and insist that all the evils that befel the Israelites in Egypt, originated as the result and effect of divine ordination, bring forward, (as a proof for the doctrine,) the following passage. " And the Lord said unto Abram, know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them ; and they shall afflict them four hundred years: and also that nation whom they serve will I judge." -- (iEN. xv, 13, 14. Here they lay the emphatic stress upon the words, " shall afflict them;'' thereby charging that affliction upon God as the cause. But I rather take the words as signifying, that the Lord foreknew that they would afflict them, and that he would not prevent that affliction from taking place ; not that he decreed the affliction. The oppression and affliction of Israel, was Egyptian work ; and was unjust and abominably wicked in the sight of the Lord; and as such, called down the righteous judgments of God upon that nation. -- ('See 1 Chro. xvii, 9.) But the bringing of Israel into Egypt; the multiplying them into a mighty nation, under that affliction; the bringing them out of that affliction; and the judging Egypt for that affliction ; was God's work. " And also that nation whom they thall serve will I judge."' For if we say, that the command of Pharaoh, to destroy all the male children of the Hebrews, was of the Lord ; how comes the Lord to favour the midwives lor saving them alive, contrary to that command ? This appears to me to be a...« less