Of god's gracious Operations on Man's Soul (). 7. When they fay, that elfe God dependethon the creature, and is determined by it, ( as to his Concorte : ) I anfwer, e . How can-Gods free upholding the power of a free agent, be his dependence onit, when it exprefly fpeaketh its dependence on him , without whom it cannot be Mx all'? a. Nocreature determinethGods Immanent ags : nor his tran- fiest, as to the meer Imprefs and fire effect ; andfo not Gods Act at all : unlefs Terminating be Determining. It is only its own Act which the creature determineth, which is a fecándary effect of Gods ait, as proceed- ing from the frond wife. Gods Influx maketh all that dmprefs on the foul which God intendeth abfólutely : But vs hither by that Imprefs the finer will confent, the will determineth, and is the chiefdeterminer in Evil. 8. Saith Dr.7wif fe Yindic. Grat. lib. a. p. 2. Digref. 9, [ The [e- ased caufe non agit, in primam, &c. Hoc faceret vel volendo, velaliud agendo, &c. ] Anfw. It's granted : God is not paffive, nor loth any fe- cond caufe adon him as paffive : Who is his Advedäry in thise '. 9. He addeth ["Neither on the Influx ofGod do we act : for an c` All is not the fubjelt of an alt.] Anfw. e. If by Gods it and In- flux he mean not the Effect on the foul, it is a falfe ,fuppofìtion that Gods Influx or A& is any other than his Effence : But if the faid effect be meant, I have fhewed you that both,indifpofition in the Recipient, and a contraryAlt may rejig it. to. Againft our Pafsive determination of the effect, he faith, that ["God isdenyed to act by phyfical, action on mans will which if "he did, he would rather determine it, than be determined by it, beaufe "it cannot refill him, &c.] 4nf. I. The will doth not reJilt by reaction on and againfi God ;but by Indifpofìtion, and by its own not acting when it can, Ô-c. a.Who dare deny all Phyf:ral Action of God on máns will, when it is qu.edam natura ? 3. The will doth not Determine Gods will,' nor reject hisImprefs, but only determine its ownAct. 4. IfGodwould act adultimum poffe, the will would never difobey or fail of the due effect. ().1 t. Hefaith ib. [DohGod move only to the All in genere e or alfoto "this fpecies ofaction ? The firft cannot be [aid, For Suarez, Hurtado, " fay that God determineth the Agent to this Individual alt. And the ',creature bath as much need ofhelp to the fpecies of motion ( which is ccperfeeter than the genus,) as to the genus. AndGods Influx is fingular, "and not determined to Generical nature, &c. ] Anfw. Gods univerfal motion (as the Suns) d4th neceffarily make its Imprefs on the creature, and giveth himfufficient help ex parte fui toAtt; yea, neeeffarilycontì- nueth the foul in fome Aétion. And that Actionis fangular,and not a non exigent univerfal. But it is only theGeneral Nature of a Angular Act which Gods Natural Influx necefParity caufeth : And the Moral fpecies (what need foever we have of help to it ) is caufed otherwife; not by this common Infux ofGod as the root of Nature, but by a fpecial Gra- cióus Influx with and by (pedal fupernaturalmeans. And this it dothon- ly to Good and not to Evil: and not alwayes with a caufally neceftatíng influx, as to our aét. z. He addeth [ "If the will need not Gods motion to its All in "fpacie, it is either in genere entis, or in genere mods. The Arft can- " not be Paid: For the fpecial Nature includeth the General and more. "And the fpecies in genere mods . are no fpecies ofalts, but only acct- "dents of humane alis, and that only by extrinfick denomination is to
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