_______._;\:,.____,___.... .. .c~ ~---- Chap.r.Sect.G. LtJokingunto1efia. Book. IV. Parr.V. 847 I ' fun is moft apt ; ofall bodily things the wi11de is leall: bodily; it is invifible;and comes neareft to the nature of a fpirit : it is quick and adive as the fpirit is. But more efpecially the holy Ghoil: is compared to awind.e inrefped of its irrefill:able workings; as nothing can refift the winde, it goei and blowes which way fo ' ever it will; fo nothing can re!ift the Spirit ofGod, wherefoever it hath a purpofc to work dlicaciot~fly; I will not fay but the heart of a man may refift and reject; the work ofthe Spirit in fomc meafure,andin fame degrees; Stephen told the Jcwes,thq bAd abMJts reftjled the holy Ghoft; and the Apofile tells of flrong Atl.7 .fl. holds, An[il qfevery high thing thAt exalteth it felfe ag~tinft G~d; fo ~ Cor.to.r. there is a natural contrariety , a conftant enmity, and aCl:ive rdifting ofGeds Spirit by our fpirits ; we mull therefore diftingui1h between a prevalent, and a gradual refifiing ; th~ fpiric in converfion fo works, that be takesaway the prevalent, but not the gradual refilling ; Aman before he be converted is froward, and full of cavilsand prejudices, he is unwilling to be Caved, he cannot abide the truth , he doth what he can to ftifle all good motions; yet if he belong to the elet'tion of grace, God will at taft over-mafter his heart, and make him of!linwilling willing; he will omn!potently bow and change the will, and work on his foul by his mighty power ~fficacioufly, infuperably, and irrefiftably. Againe, the holy Ghoft is compared to winde, in r~fpeCl: ofits free at'tings; the '"inde bloweth where it Jijltth(Caith Chrift) Joh, 3.11. and fo the Spirit bloweth where it lifieth ; who can give any reafon why the Spirit breaths fo fwcetly on 'facob, and not on Efau? on Peter, and not on {udru! is it not the free grace aad good pleafureofGod? fprings it n(1t from the meere freedome and pure arbitrarineffe of . his own only workings? to you it u . givtn to k.,now the myfle'ries of the Kingaomeof heaven( faith Chrill:) Matth. i l• 11. hut to them it i~not given. And I thank., ther: 0 Father Lord of he.cwn and earth, becau(e 1 thou haft hid thefe thingJ from the wife Mlt,ll, ~s,:6. and prudent: and hit{f revMled tlnm unto b11bn ; rven fo Father, for fo it (emu a good in thy fight. Thefe and the like rexts are as fo many h<lmmers to beate in pieces all thofe doctrines of free-will and of the power ofman to fupernatural things, grace makes n~ gaincofmans work; free-will may indeed move and run but if it be to good, it muft be moved, and driven , and breath~d upon by Gods free grace. TheS'pirit blows wh~re it liieth: · 4· He.
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