of Free-will. Quell. 3. * Is a man ablé tò fin, if GodDecree he (hall not ; or able. tó * That R. atentia peccandi forbearfn, or obey, if Godfore-know that he will not ? rs of God, fee Aureolen in z. d.gq.art.z.pag.3'sy. Anfw. Yes: for God is not fuppofed to decree or fore-fee that he fhs11 3zg not be able ; nay,if God fore-fee that he willnot do what he can, it infer- utreem precept¢ fupernatu- reth that hecan. But the event is a logical impo bility; that is, it is not f one fprc all bauxilorgro- true that it mill be: tree? Refp. mod non: Qeft.4. Is the Intelleal truly informed, able tofit right an habitual] 9uia ip(a nequennt /ervari ,1 of elateenda atre rnfu. undifpofed Will ? forum virtutum, &c. Ca- Anfm. It is able to do that towards it which on abetter difpofed Will And(wh hwould you would be effeáual : But not toproduce the effeá. . have higher than his, QQuell. Is a over not excited to AEI, able to do that áë6 ? q4 ? r. An [amen ¡n- 5 P pernaturale info /um fader Anfm. Thequeftion is, Whether apower not excited bea power ? Yes, fit rata vietus agendi It is a Power, but fuch as will not aá till excited. ahem frdei ? Re /p. 4 sia aíius fader eft Tread Queft. 6. Is that Grace which exciteth our Powers , another fecond omxem rateonem modem, Power ? jabPatine, denateinatia- Anfw. It is the excitation of a Power; ora received impulfe : Call it nil uiist ejurmvitap in Power or wbat youwill, foyou trouble not the Church with a need,lefs òcta fecando fupernatura -. lis, Deum. Cr ntterem fu- wrangling about aName, when there are others as fit. pernaturalem attingens , Queft. 7. Is a Habit a Power ? nec continetter intro vimos Anfw. It is fomewhat not well known by man ; But we know that it Zieoratemcrnaturee, es en- /uapte is left than thenatural Power, in point of fubftantiality, as being but an natura off ad illam impro- .Accident : But it is more than both naturaland moral power, in order of pertionatn , p. 3E. 39. Jo other Tleomifts. But perfe/lion to the aá: For to be ableand prompt is more than to be /neerly here wantee1 fome ex- able. pralicattie.y. ion of fupernatu- Queft. 8. Isa hindered Power trulya Power ? Yea they affert (ut idem Anfw. If the hinderance be fuch as the faculty is not able to over- ibid.?. 39, &C.) That it isnot formally a power adhoc : But otherwifeit is. the Intend} hath not fo come much asa peteneia obedt- Queft. 9. Can God make a manable without any change on himfelf, to do entails atrtva, but only papa to the aft of that which he was Hirablefor ? Faith; but conceivethat Anfw. Yes : If his difability lay in the want ofextrinfick Concaufes, the fupernatura] infufed Objee s, or media. Grace of Faith isas ve- ceffary to enable the Quell. a a. May a meer'changeof the VnderlTlanding enable the Will to facultyto chatall,asthe faculty to the Eflence do what it could not do ? y Anfw. Not what it had not a natural Power to do : But what it of the soot therein- Though yet they grant wanted but a moral power or dif oftion to do ; it may in two cafes, that the mtelleRS caes- s. If God do powerfully illumidate the Understanding, and by the fSén e iststi ci, yet can Underftanding operateon the Will : Or in ordinary cafes, do nosing bur by the if the underftandings ails be clear and ftrong. 2. Ifthe Will it fell be faculty, o ntdaia, they not obftinately before ill difpofed.. in potentia, which Dr. Quell. i I. Is an unwilling Will able toexcite or chan g ff a it el ? Tmiffe denieth. But a hard queltion Anfw. Even in the point of believing, it hath natural power and liberty troubleth fome of the toaáotherwife than it doth, evento turn it fell from the ail of Unbe- Sch houser, f rug fait, lief to theaec ofFaith: But beingundifpofed and ill difpofed, it willnot and Gods work, and do that which it hath a natural fell- determining power todo; till God it was fo in the Sewa that believed -that afiift it or turn it by his Grace. Chrift was to , come ; Queft.. 52. Can any man believe that Will ? if that Faith continued Anfw. I. Aman that knoweth not the Gofpel, orwhat tobelieve, in any fume time after tas in Nati,otool, &c.J on a general rumorof ir, may with that he had it, knew it, andbelieved whether God Gill caw it:.And yet cannot believe it indeed, till he know what to believe. fed 2. Aman that perceiveth not the. evidence of verity or credibility in whictt molt need put , the Gofpel, and therefore believeth it not to be true; may for the end them upon tomes ex- Caption: They fay, How it is fides humana, but per apparentiam - divina,,, es, Deseo onmint: dominos efcere potei ut leis alienoccidat fine peccare ( Idem, ibid.) But a furtier anfwer may and mull begiven; whichwill be ufeful tothe Cafe bcforè us, when confdetcd. etf whichin due place. O and 97
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