9.  As to the authorities derived from Holy Scripture, Mr. Hobbes divides them into three kinds; some, he says, are for me, the second kind are neutral, and the third seem to be for my opponent.  The passages which he thinks favourable to his opinion are those which ascribe to God the cause of our will.  Thus Gen. xlv. 5, where Joseph says to his brethren, ’Be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me hither:  for God did send me before you to preserve life’; and verse 8, ’it was not you that sent me hither, but God.’  And God said (Exod. vii. 3), ’I will harden Pharaoh’s heart.’  And Moses said (Deut. ii. 30), ’But Sihon King of [400] Heshbon would not let us pass by him:  for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand.’  And David said of Shimei (2 Sam. xvi. 10), ’Let him curse, because the Lord hath said unto him:  Curse David.  Who shall then say, wherefore hast thou done so?’ And (1 Kings xii. 15), ’The King [Rehoboam] hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord.’  Job xii. 16:  ’The deceived and the deceiver are his.’ v. 17:  ‘He maketh the judges fools’; v. 24:  ’He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness’; v. 25:  ’He maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.’  God said of the King of Assyria (Isa. x. 6), ’Against the people will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.’  And Jeremiah said (Jer. x. 23), ’O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:  it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.’  And God said (Ezek. iii. 20), ’When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die.’  And the Saviour said (John vi. 44), ’No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him.’  And St. Peter (Acts ii. 23), ’Jesus having been delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken.’  And Acts iv. 27, 28, ’Both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.’  And St. Paul (Rom. ix. 16), ’It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.’  And v. 18:  ’Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth’; v. 19:  ’Thou wilt say then unto me, why doth he yet find fault?  For who hath resisted his will?’; v. 20:  ’Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?  Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus?’ And 1 Cor. iv. 7:  ’For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?’ And 1 Cor. xii. 6:  ’There are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.’  And Eph. ii. 10:  ’We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.’  And Phil. ii. 13:  ’It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.’  One may add to these passages all those which make God the author of all grace and of all good [401] inclinations, and all those which say that we are as dead in sin.