Aid theSub-operatiñns of Mads 3 3__ intellcc ual agent can LdIEe it felt. All the Books in myLibrary teach me without any Action, by being figea objectively to my active In- telleçt. d 3. 3 If the queflion be of the Divine Irrprefc on the foul, it is quid reale, and thereforephyficrim And it is moral as it is theprincipi-, um ácias moraliç. The fameis to be faid of our own Ads and Habits , They are phyfical ánd moral accidents. And they cannot be moral, unlefs- they be phyfical. 4, But it mull be known that to be quid naturale and Iuidmorale, formally differ; as 4ctas qua talcs, and ardor qua ordo, do differ ab ordine fea Relation adLegem ¿ adfinem mactorn and Moralitas eftac1us Phy fci, vel privationsRelatio, viz. adRegulam& finemmoron. 0.5. But if-the queilion be not of the Morality of the Alt, but the Morality of the Caufe, viz. /vhether Grace or divine action do caufe Phy- fically or Morally _1 I anfw'er plainly, that There is no trueCauje which is notPhÿ(kal: Amoral Caufe, not phyfscat, is but caufa reputata vet nominalu: Objets are ufually faid to Caufe morally : But if they be mealy objefts, they caufe not efficiently at all; but by termination only materially conftitute theAft in fpecie. But fome things vulgarly called objets (as Light, Heat, br.) are Attive and fo effect. And he that doth proponere objettum_ doch indeed diet, by fpeaking or doing : But he doth not effet any thing by the objet! on the mind , as it is a meet objet!. But theVox loquentis doch more thanprefent anobjelt: It doth by agency fufcitate theSpirits and operateonthe organs of fenfation. And many mercies, affilions, and other means forementioned, have their feve- sal wayes of attive operation. But it is readily confeifed, that nothing corporeal can by any direct efficiencyoperate on a foul ; butonly Attive spi- rits like it fell. Remember therefore that Itake the word Phyfical here as theSchools do, largely, as comprehending spiritual or hyperphyfieal: And I plainly fay de nomine, thatGods operations of Grace areto be cal- led Hyperphyfical in refpelt toGod theAgent, and Phyfical as they are Phy- fical effeets on man, and Moral as the fame are in infianti fecundo allo moral effelts. And that they are calledMoral in twoufual fenfes : i.In thatit is Morality or Virtue that is producedby them: 2.And in that objells being much of the Means, the operation or efficiency of objects as ob- jells, is properly none at all ; They do but materially (as it were) con- flitute the Alt , and terminate it, and occafion it , as fine quibus non, which many call a Moral Repotatine, Metaphorical Caufation. And yet diverfrficatio'n is muchby objefts. *. 6, If this Rumble any who look not at the greater inconveniences on the other fide, and occafion them to think that it is little efficient opera- tion which we own in the collation of faith and converfion: Idefire them to confider well, r . That it is no new futfianet at allthat is tobe produced; but apre: exiftent fubflance and faculty to beactuated. 2. That it is not an Al! as fuch ingenere,that is to be cauCedby Grace but the due ordering of alts as to right objefts, bc. 3'. That the foul as loch is an Active spirit, not indifferent between Action and cef atian ; but as naturally prone to At!, as the earth to rift, and as a fione inthe air to defcend, and as theSun to move and Thine : fo that it is never one minute outofAltion, even in this earthen tabernacle from its first being to the lait breath, day or night i Though in different manner. f f£ q.. That
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