[513] Howe’s Works, iii. 37. He refers to Cudworth. See remarks on the argument in Rogers’ Life of Howe, 368.
[514] Works, iv. 416, et seq.
[515] Works, ii. 144, et. seq.—I have, in speaking of Thorndike, mentioned the distinction which he makes between degrees of inspirations. But that was a turn of thought which seems to have been rarely taken in those days. I have searched Pearson, and Taylor, and Goodwin, and even Baxter, besides others, in vain for any indication of their having contemplated any such controversy on the subject as exists in our day. The complete inspiration of the Bible was believed. The Lutheran theologians of the seventeenth century maintained the inspiration of every word, and also that the Hebrew vowel points are original.—Hagenbach Hist. of Doctrine, ii. 231.
[516] Herbert’s De Veritate was published in 1624.
[517] For the doctrine of the Eternal Generation, see Goodwin’s Works, v. 547; Owen’s Works, viii. 112, 291. For the doctrine of the Trinity: Goodwin, iv. 231; Owen, ii. 64, 175; Orme’s Life of Baxter, 470.
[518] See Howe’s mode of speaking about the covenant in contrast with Thorndike’s.—Works, iii. 448.
[519] Works, viii. 4, 257, 459, 546; ii. 234; viii. 288.
[520] Works, ix. Discourse of Election.
[521] See Ibid., 154, 160, 344. He mentions a good woman, who said to her wicked son, “Well, I shall one day rejoice that thou shalt be damned, and take part with the glory of God therein.” The conviction of so high a grace in her soul he declares was the means of breaking the man’s heart, and converting him.
Such things had been said by the schoolmen. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa (pt. iii. sup. quest. 94, art. i.), alludes to the bliss of the saved being increased by the sight of the lost.