138 OfSufficient andEfeclual Grace. Grace; though it didnot; do you not (peak unintelligibly ? For either you fpeakof a Logical poffibility only, or of a real firength or power; If of the former, you equivocate; and you differ not from others : For you oft confers, that Gods meer Prefciencethatit will not be, doth infer a Logical neceflìty confequentie, and fo a Logical impoffibility of the contrary. But if by [could ] you mean a real firength or oppofite power, you miffake the matter. Moral pravity is notfirength or power at all ; But thepervertonor difiafe offirength or power. So that the cafe isnot unfearchable : when a manis converted, what bath your qúeltion refpel to, in the word [ Befall ] but the Al, the vicious habit and privation, and thenatural faculty ? Is there any thing elfe tobeconvdered ? A. " Not thatI remember; what then? B. TheAl you confer is procured, and therefore not refitted (e£ felually. ) 2. Theprivationrefifteth but pagivelÿ, and fo hath noalive power. And to fay that the privationof Faith could have refitted the Grace that wroughtFaith, implyeth a fallhood, if youmean it ofalive power or refiftance. 3. The contrary habit is not apower, but the ill difpofttion of a power.. Therefore if it bedefallo, overcome as to the al by ghat Grace, or init felf by habitual Grace; it is on a falte fuppoft- tion to lay, that it hadpower to have refitted, when as it bath no power, notes a power. But if. you (peakof Logical poffibility, its impertinent quivocation. q.. All that remaineth then is, that the naturalfaculty in theantecedent inttant wanted not power or freedom to the contraryal; ;which is true, and none of them that are intelligent deny. For God by determiningafree power, dothnot.deliroy it, but ufe it, and detcrtnine it. And Godschange of the Mind and Will, is not by any diminution or fralion of the power of it, but by a fapiential and loving efficacy, aling it aright, and more advancing it. Even in our after lives,hedoch nottakeaway our natural power towill anddo evil, but he taketh "away thevicious difpofition,of it,that we may certainly will anddowell. Tell meyet then where is thedifference ? A. " 7houghyouover-whelmmebydJinllions, you cannot fo blind me, "but I know adifference between thefe two Opinions, [when Paul frfl be- " lieved, he could have refilled and not believed,] and [He could not "refift, and not believe. ] B. That is, you havelearnt of the Matters of Confufion and Diffenti- on,to ftrive about words, which you underhand not; and having the Foot-Ball beforeyou, youwill drive it on. But little know you whi- ther? nor how little thanks the great Shepherd of the Flock will give you at the !aft. Either thew us the difference, orbe afhamed to pretend a difference. A. " Iperceive thatthe Controverte about ReVflance is refolved into that " ofpower : [Can and Cannot refill ], which-was openedbefore. THE
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