Of Free.will. orG lutton when he is brought by it to the Gout or other pain and lick- nee, &c. have quite other apprehenfionsdually ofthe follyoff nningi than ever you could bring them to before, by any other,thecertaineft convictions. VII.As we are certain by experience that theAs called Intellellion and . Volition now, are fuch operations of the Soul as ever ftir and ufe the spirits, and we perceive both together as if it were acompound opera- tion, and know not by experience what any Knowledge or Volition is which ufeth not the spirits ; fo we find by true experience, that the fufcitationofthe faid spirits (or igneous particles) in us, much conduceth to the fufcitationof the faculties of the Soul : By which fervent fpeak- ing,and awakening Providences do much : And allo that they that have clear and quick Spirits, are eafilieft awakened. VIII. We find allo by experience, that the internal fin[live faculty hath a great (hare in thefe efIe&ual operations : For the certáineft ap- prehenuons of theTutelle&,work butdefediively on the Will,unlefs they are accompanied with, orftirup fome Sent, AffeitionorPaffzon; either Fear, Hope, Love, Defre, Delight, Anger, or fome other properpaffion. And Volitions themlelves are but (luggifh uneffe &ual A&s, as to the im- periumor command of the executive Powers or Thoughts, unlef they ftir up fome Paffion to their aid ; And therefore lifelef wither are common with fluggifh and unrefòrmed men. IX. The Spirit ofGod can,andwe have reafon to think,fometime Both Ihr up the faculties of theSoul toholy Cogitations, Apprehenfions and Volitions, without any other means, known to us, than what the per- fon before ufed uneffe&wally : Andwhen means are effectual to fan&i- fying Ads, it is principally by theopera;ion òf'theHoly Ghoft, and lets principally the aptitudeof the means. X. The firft received influx ad alium is not it which we call a Habit : For a Habit is afixedpromptitude to all. XI. An habit in the Intelled is skill, or intelle87ual promptitude to A& rightly and ea ly. An habit in the Will, is inclination, and love it felf radicated, or averfation and radicated hatred. And a habit in the vital executive Power, is a promptitude and vivacity to the right execu- ting of the Wills commands (and firít exciting it to a& ). XII. A habit infufed is of the fame species with acquired habits, though it be otherwife caufed, and of a more excellent ufe. And in both we have reafonto think that the A& goeth before the Habit; Though the Holy Ghoft can fix a Habit by one A&, when acquired Habits are caufed but by cujlomor manyAds. XIII. In the (trie fenfe, as Alls fo Habits are fpecified by their ObjecTs, andare not found but in fuch species : But in á largerfenfeand Is pro- per we may fay that there are more univerfal Habits, net denominated at all from any fort of Objects, that is, thefight Dipofitionof the Soul to its due operations : But this is but an inadequate univerfal conception of thefame Habit, and not anotherthing I think. XIV. A habit of the Intelled about Principles is a Difpofition to the knowledge of conclufbns or confequents: And a habit of the Will ad fnew, is a Difpoftion to the choice and ufe of the knownmeans ; but not aridly á habit tothem. XV. Motion tendeth to further motion. OneAd of the Soul dit pofeth it to or furthereth another : And as water that hath got a Chanel and is let inmotion, floweth Rill thefaine way, and'fire by burning, the moreforcibly proceedeth to burns fo the Soul bya&ing,the more readily holdethon that courfe ofa&ion. N 2 XVI.
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