emnd thé Sub-operationsof Man'sWill. >3. 7. And as this is no perfonal promife giving any man a right to the thing promifed,. which he mayclaim; but only foretelling ;what God wilt do, or give' toforte :. fo he bath other promiles which are part of his Law of Grace, and dogive MenRight to thefe fame Benefits. And fo thespirit of sanelifecation and a new heart, is promifed on Condition of believing; which therefore is the former fpecial Grace. 8. If any therefore will prove thatfaith is given 4bfolately, they muff not do it by thofe Texts, which (peak of Santlification, whichfaith is a condition of. (). 9. But as to thequefflon it felt, Whether Faith be given ebfolutely or conditionally ? Ianfwer, a. there is no sibfoliate promifè of faith made toany perfons ; but only promiffory predictions of fome indeterminate unnamed perfons, that God will draw them and give them to Chriff, and they (hall believe and live. z. All men have means and duty appointed them, for the feeking of that Grace which may convert them. 3. They are hereby bound to believe, that if they fodo, they (hall not lofe their labour. For God fetteth men onno unprofitablework. 4. Thofe that do this molt faithfdlly, and have molt preparinggrace, are the likeft to become believers; and the ordinary receivers of fpecial grace. 5. Whether de »amine this encouragement (hall be called a promife or equipollent, let them contend that lift. 6. God can anddoth fuddenly convert Tome without fuchpreparations or elfe give them both forts of Grace immediately at once. SECT. )tIX. How God may be Paid to Carafe the 4¿ís offin ? IHave Paid of this all() fo much before, as that this Breviate heremilt ferve. . t. It mutt be Well confidered, that God made mans Nature before he made any pofitive Laws for him : And that theLaw of Nature it fell, is in order of Nature after Nature though not in Time : Manbeing firft confiderable as Man, before he be confiderable as obliged to duty. And alto that the Law, both Natural and Pofitivé, is before mans obedience and fox. So that as man is firft in order of Nature Mari, and then Gods Governable sübjea, and then (in order of Time) obedient or dif- obedient; fo God is brit his Creator, and then Natura Motor, and then his Governour by Legiflation; and then his Gracious Helper, and laftly his fudge andRewarder; z. Thereforeas NaturalBeing f fùb Lance and faculties ) and Natu- ralMotion are antecedent tomorality; fo Gods caufation of both thefe is antecedent : and therefore to be Creator,Preferver andMotor is not tobe the Carafe of fin, or ofvirtuous acts, as fuck. 0.3. God as creator was not pleafed to make all his Creatures of one kind, nor of one degree of excellence: but in fuch variety asis wonder- ful to our obfervation: Befides the innumerable fpecies ofbeings, and the innumerable parts of every compound being, the diffimilitude ofindvidu- als of the fame fpecies is admirable: fo that no two faces, are perfeEtly like, nonor no two Stones in the S_ treet, no two Trees, Birds, Beafts, &c. Ii.ü And It is ill laid , f ..Profitel mur incunllanter , pror- fru impeditum eri quo4 uuiverfs fimpliciter Bo- num oft, fe impediretar pecratum : quoniam hot patto impediretur pate((a- íeie Divine mifericordi,e parcentis, da juftitlerim dicantis.: ;ua guides patefaíeio, non manus rani - verf:. Bonum ceofenda eft; ram gdalibet alit ea= lappet Dei, proprietatie, in ipfo tanquam to fpecu', Io relucentis.1 Twill. Vin- dic.'Grat.li. r. p.r.pag.' Ies dangerous, tt3- talk fo boldly of there my- fteries. Here feem tó me many errors and confufions.,, r.It is falfè that God couldnot make knownto the world that merciful nature which now pardoneth-lin, and that unica which now punit-teth, if`there had keen no fin. His Laws Promifes and Threat
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