And the Saab-operations ofMan's Will. -3 SECT. XIIÏ. Ofmans Power Naturaland Moral. t. Have faid fo much ofthis alfo in the other parts of thisBooks th e a little heremay ferve. r. Man hath no Power whatfocver but from God ; and therefor; doth not adas a prime Caufe properly, becaufc but by a derived power. a. That which is a Power but hypothetically onCondition of fume= thing not exigent, efpecially not in our power it felt', is no power proper- ly and univocally, but equivocally only, As to fay, I am able to leap to Heaven if God will Caufe it : I am able to lift a thoufand pound with fulficient help which I have not : I am able to fee if I had light : or to fee a Phoenixif there were fnch a thing : or I am able to will or move with Godsneceffary predetermining premotion ( fay force ) which I have not. None of this is a true Power ad hoc. But to conftitute a formal Power, it is neceffary that I have all things, without which I cannot do the ac`t. p.;. It is a contradilion to fay that when a man hath the truePower to believe, yet he cannot do the 4e7, *without further premotion : which is to fay, He that can believe, cannot believe. The Power connoteth the P f f bite. bath¢. t The trueNatural Power of hue/Zealot; and volition every man as aman : And when God, Chrift, Heaven are brought to us with all the Conditions neceffary to ObjeEls of Intellect and Will, we have for- mal power to underftandAndwill them, in this Natural fence. What is neceffary to the Being of an Ohjitt, and Revelation, I delire the Reader to fee dif in&ly opened by me, in a fmall traët called,The Certainty of Cbri- fliánitywithout Popery. . ç..But the foul it felf bath a vicious hidifpoption to the fpiritual ex- ercife of there faculties or powers : And this is the morbus facultatum; And this Ìndifpofition is called a Moral Impotency ; becaufe the foul is unfitted by it to theexert* fe of itsnatural Power. (). 6. When this lndifpoftion is fo great, as that no manin that cafe cloth do the act, we fay he is morally unable : And when it is not fo great, but that under that Indi fpoJtion foremen do the a7, inthat hate of help we fay that fuck aman is morally able. Therefore he that is yet more difpo. fed, is foMore able, and it hash various degrees. 7. But if a man have fo great a difpofition ( skill and will) as that he is ready to the facile andfrequent performanceof thead, that Prompti- tudeis called a Habit, andis more thana meer )moral power (though apow- eralfo.) 8. It is certain that men cando more than they do: not only that they could domore if God would predetermine them, or give them more grace but that properly they can. The worft hathPower to do more good, and forbear more evil, than he Both ; And fo -have the bell. 0.9. Adamhad trueproper Power, naturalandMoral, to have flood when hefell : He finnednot for want of neceffàry Power to have forborn it. #. t o. They that denythis and refolve all fen into Gods unreffible ne= ceftating operation, or denying ofpower abfolutely and antecedently ne- ceffary, I think do make way forHobbes his Theologie, or fubverfionof Re- ligion. Gggg 2 tI. Moral c Ás 3anfenius án,1 Dr. Tiniffe doz in making more abfolutely nere fart to it. f Potentia rdtiógalrn na- tart humane non peteft mi= nui extrin¡¡ice, dr entita- Cioè, per deftru lionem ali- cijusgradus ejufdem peter- tia;'pnteft tamed minai per appofitronem impedi< menti, pale eftpeccatore; niel per inclinationem con- trariam ad peccata; quali inclinatio generator per aííus males : Ioucefe efi. trim ex hot quod,áliquid inclinatir ad anon; contra- riorum, quod diminuatur inclinatio ejus ad aliad : Cum ergo peccatum fit con, trariam turati, ex hoè ipfo quod hems peccat, di. minuitur beton natura, goodeftindinatio ad vi, totem: Abater deAux. li 6.. difp. 45. p. eta. Ita Thom. r. 2. q. B9: ¡I.'. incore.
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