Andthe Sub-operalions ofMan's Will. 1'5 p. 29. 1 L And accordingly I think, that the glory of his governing wijdom, andPunifbing and Rewarding 7uJlice, is. a great and notablepart of that glory which man mull give him now and for ever. And that this7ultice is not his phyftcal tiling all things according to their phyfieal aptitude only s But his fudging and Executing -according to that mo.- rai aptitude commonly called Merit, by Punifhments and Rewards: And that to deny Goofthe glory ofall this, is no fmal1 error in a Philofopheror Divine. It). 3o. I I I. AccordinglyI think, that God made mana free feif-deter- mining agent, that he might be capable of fuch Sapiential Rule : And that it is a great Honour to God, co make fo noble a Nature, as bath a. Power to determine its own eleftions : And though fuch are not of the 'higheft rank of they are far above the lowed: And that God ( who we fee delighteth to make up beauty and harmony ofdiverftties ) doth delight in the Sapiential Moral Government of this free fort ofCrea- tures : And though man be not Independent; yet to be fo far Like God hitnfelf, as to be akind of firftdeterminer of many of his own Volition and Nolitions, is parcof GodsNatural Image onMan. (). 31. I V. Accordingly I takeDuty to be Rewardable and Laudable; andfin tobe odious as it is theACt of a free agent : And that the Na- ture ofMoral Goodand Evil, confifleth not in its being the meer effect of phyGcal premotion, but in being ,a Voluntary Conformity or Difcon- formity to the Sapiential Rule of duty, by a free agent that had Power to do otherwife. (). 32. V. Frei-will then is not only the fame with willing it feif, or a meer agency according to Nature) by the premotion of the fitlt deter mining neceffitaring Mover. It is not only fuch a freedom asFire, Wa- ter, Beafts; and every moved thing hath; (tobe moved according to the firft,Movers action) which is in the will of man; But it is a Power to bea firlé determining Specifier of its own ads as Moral: Not that it is ne- ver predetermined, but that it ron do this.. è. 33 V I. Accordingly I judge of Guilt, and Shame, and the Acciufi_ tion of Confcience; which will not be a bare difcerning what God made us do or be 5 but what we voluntarily did or were y when we could dd otherwifei 34. V II. And Í am pail all doubt, that he grofly miftaketh the nature and diftin&ion ofLaw andGofpel: i. To think that GodsLaw, when it is not accompanied with phyGcal predetermination, is but to Phew us that we are creatures; that cannot but fin. z. Yea, hereby he wrongeth the glory of the Creator, that made no creature with a power 'to do any thing bin evil, unlefs predetermined phyfically theretö. 3. It's grofs to fay, that all the DOCtrine of Redemption, and Faith; áíìd Jufification by Chill, as a meer fsgnúm, Letter or Law, is the Law or Covenant bf Works, and fo that every command is the Covenant of Works, and Phylical Efficiency of Good in us is the Gofpel or Cove- nant of Grace. For that which we call the Gofpel is not true; if this be true: For this Gofpel is a preached word fpoken by mans mouth; which fome believe, and fome believe not, but reject and difobey , and therefore pedal: Matth. 4. s 3. & 11.5 er 24.14. & z 6. 13. lMark 16. t 5. Luke 4. s 8. 1 Car. 9. 14, 16, t 8. Heb. 4.2. 1 Pit. 1. 2$: 1 Pet. 4.6. 2 Theff. r. 8, 16, r r. Matth:13. lo. Alts 15.7: It is a Law by which menMall be judged to life or death, Rom: z. 16. Mare 16:15, 16. z The': r, 8. Rom.- 10.16.. y'ohn 3. 19, zo, z i. z Car: 4.: Qgg4 z 3,4;
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