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PROVISION FOR the poore, now in penurie. OVT OF THE STORE-HOVSE of Gods plentie: […] Explaned by H. A. […] To redreſſe which default (the poore in all places beeing in penurie) I haue vndertaken to be their Solicitour, vnto all manner of perſons, which ought in equitie either to ſupply them, or to prouide that ſuch as make default (being well able) may bee compelled thereunto by further authoritie front the Almightie, if this gentle motion in the words precedent will not preuaile, which heere I will repeate and explane vnto them, (by Gods aſſiſtance)

The Iewes of old ſearched, and to this day ſpend their wits, to make Gods promiſe true of their eternall poſſeſſing the holy land, though they be caſt out, and are driuen to many ſhifts: but ſee how briefly Auſtine explanes it from a like phraſe in Horace: Seruiet æternùm, qui paruo neſciet vti. To be ſhort, many ſtories of the kings of Babylon, the Medes, Perſians, and Macedonians, occurre in Scripture, which without prophane ſtories we cannot explane.

But Dr. Waterland, though he ſpeaks of a threefold Generation of the Son; two antemundane, and one in the fleſh; yet, when he comes to explane himſelf, denies any literal Generation of the Son at all: for he ſuppoſes his being in the Father, before he was generated, to be the firſt and moſt proper Filiation or Generation; which he allows to be a mere cöexiſtence with the Father, and not any Derivation from him.—His ſecond Generation he ſuppoſes to be, his Manifeſtation to crëate; which is no Generation. And, thirdly, his Manifeſtation in the fleſh, to govern his creatures; which he explanes to be nothing but a Miſſion, Manifeſtation, or Exertion, or taking a new office: […]