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Author: Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
Title: A humble endeavour of some plain and brief explication of the decrees and operations of God, about the free actions of men, more especially of the operations of divine grace written by Mr. John Corbet ...
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Print source: A humble endeavour of some plain and brief explication of the decrees and operations of God, about the free actions of men, more especially of the operations of divine grace written by Mr. John Corbet ...
Corbet, John, 1620-1680.
London: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst ..., 1683.
Subject terms:
Free will and determinism.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34535.0001.001
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THE PREFACE.
PART I. Of the Decrees of God about the Actions of Men.
1. What the Divine Decree of an Event doth import.
2. The Divine Decree doth not infer the Necessitation of the Event.
3. The Negation of the Decree doth not infer an impossibility of the Event.
4. The indetermination of Mans Will doth not infer the Vncertainty of God's Decree.
5. God decrees all the Good that comes to pass.
6. God doth not Will or Decree Sin.
7. there is no need of holding that Sin is decreed of God.
8. A Decree to permit Sin is not necessary.
9. The Effect of Sin may be the Object of Gods Decree.
10. Of the Futurition of Sin from Eternity.
11. Of Gods Eternal Prescience of Sin.
12. In what Sense Benefits are absolutely decreed of God.
13. Punishments are not alike absolutely Decreed, yet in some sense absolutely.
14. Of the diversity and order of Gods Decrees.
15. Divers Decrees have diversly qualified Objects.
16. Of Absolute Election.
17. Of a general Conditional Decree of Salvation.
18. Of Non-Election.
19. The Non-Election of some, agreeable to the Wisdom, and consistent with the Goodness of God.
20. Of Positive Reprobation.
21. In what sense God is said to Will the Conversion and Salva∣tion of all.
PART II. Of the Operations of God about the Actions of Men.
1. God is the Cause of all Good.
2. Of Gods Agency about Humane Actions, and the Natural Li∣berty of Mans Will.
3. The Self-Determining Power of the Will is no Derogation from God.
4. Of Gods Physical and Moral Operation upon Mans Will.
5. Of Commmon Concurse and Gracious Operation.
6. God doth not Operate to the uttermost.
7. God may so operate as to leave the Effect in part to Mans Will.
8. How God is a Total, and not a Partial Cause, and wherein a Sole Cause.
9. Gods Agency is not determined or limited by the Creature.
10. How Gods Operation on man is never without Effect.
11. God in giving e Power gives the Act, whensoever the Act follows.
12. Of Gods Agency about Sinful Acts.
13. Gods not Effecting the sinful Act, as morally specified, infers not the Creatures Independency.
14. Of the Consequences that follow Physical Predetermination to all Humane Acts.
15. Whether God doth Cause sin as it is a Punishment.
16. Sin doth not necessarily follow the permission of it.
PART III. Of the Operations of Divine Grace.
1. What is signified by Divine Grace.
2. The meaning of some Distictions of Grace, that are common∣ly used.
3. Of Vniversal Grace.
4. Every one hath a Stock of Divine Help to be improved.
5. Of Grace sufficient to that Good which is not Effected by it.
6. Some undeniable Instances of Grace sufficient.
7. Of Grace sufficient to Conversion that doth not effect it.
8. Whether the Holy Habit be effected before the first Act of turning to God.
9. The actual Prevalence of sin doth not gainsay the Suffici∣ency of Grace.
10. Equal Grace is not given to all, whose condition towards God antecedently is equal.
11. Of unequal Proportions of Grace in respect of outward Means.
12. Of unequal Proportions of Grace, in respect of Divine Influx on the Soul.
13. A Stock of Grace is ordinarily given in unequal Proportions and arbitrarily.
14. Of the Notion of Effectual Grace.
15. Conversion is the Effect of Grace qua talis effectual.
16. The Position of this Effectual Grace is not repugnant to the Sufficient Grace before spoken of.
17. Grace Sufficient is not altogether in vain, where the Effect follows not.
18. Grace more than meerly Necessary is not needless.
19. In what manner of Operation Grace formally Effectual doth consist.
20. Of congruous Vocation.
21. Grace Effectual, and meerly Sufficient, are variously diversified.
22. Of Mens ordinary Preparedness for Grace Effectual.
23. How the Effect of Grace, left in part to undetermined Free-will, can be ascertained.
24. Mans Will doth not that which is more and greater than what Divine Grace doth, when the Effect is in some part left to it.
25. The Help of Divine Grace is inferr'd from the Law of Grace.
26. The Duty of improving the Help of Grace, proves the Sufficiency thereof.
27. Of Gods Expostulation. Isa. 5. 4.
28. Of the different states of men in respect of Divine Help.
29. The most hopeful Way of receiving more Grace.
30. Incouragement to wait on Gods Grace in his Way.
31. Whether God hath promised Grace Effectual to those that use Grace received.
32. Equal help of Grace may have different Effects.
33. Whether any be Converted by such Help of Grace, as leaves some Vnconverted.
34. In mans Conversion and in all Good God is always Chief, yea all in all.
35. Of St. Paul's Question, Who made thee to differ from another?
36. Special and more abundant Grace may be ordinarily vouch∣safed to the Elect, and wherein it lies.
27. In what respect there is always a specialty of Grace towards the Elect.
38. It becomes God to ascertain the Salvation of some, but not of all.