The works of Thomas Jackson Author:Thomas Jackson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: endeavours may prove occasions to stir up the gifts of God in them, or give them any useful hints for prosecuting this argument, I have that which I most desired... more » in the publication of my former meditations upon the Apostles' Creed. And if these labours, and others of like nature following, may be accepted by your Majesty, I have all that I desire, besides the propagation of Christ's kingdom and church here on earth, and the good success of my daily prayers for the blessing of God the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost, upon your sacred Majesty, your royal Consort, and hopeful issue. Your Majesty's Most humble Servant and devoted Chaplain, THOMAS JACKSON. chapter{Section 4THE 567 KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS ; THE SEVENTH BOOK COMMENTARIES UPON THE APOSTLES' CREED. .HOW evil should mingle itself with the works of God, seeing every thing made by him (and he made all) was good—how that evil which we call sin should find entrance into, and hold possession of the heart of man, who was the accomplishment of all God's visible works, and upon whose creation it is said, that God saw every thing that he had made, and it was very good—what kind of being this evil hath, whether merely privative, or only positive, or partly both— wherein that servitude which sin did bring upon us doth consist—what freedom of will is compatible with our natural servitude unto Satan, (for without some freedom of will we might be Satan's instruments, his slaves or servants unto sin we could not be);—these and the like queries, with their several branches, in the first project of this long work, had their place allotted between the article of Creation and the articles concerning Christ, or in the intended seventh book of Commentaries upon the Creed. But the method then intended I have now altere...« less