139 T H E Eighth Days Conference Between D. and C. Of SUFFICIENT and EFFECTUAL GRACE. B. I now expe& your fharpeft Charge against your Adverfaries about the nature, efficacyand extent of Grace. The finFi Crimination. C I. "They art an Vníverfality of Grace to all men, fufficient to " theySalvation. * * Malderus, in t. z: Tht B. I hope you have nomalignant defire to extenuateGods Grace, but 9'menr onreh five arewilling to acknowledge it to be as great andlarge as indeed it is, if degrees of fufficient youcan diteern the proof. impede t. That cooly impeded' degree by C. "Godbell knoweth howto honour hionfelf which Sinners may fo.- B. - Quell. I. Do you think that all the World, or all that (hall peal, f r ;p Tlattof the RCt yea or any partof' the World is under the meer Curfe oftheLaw of In- generate by which they nocency, as violated by Adam, withoutany remedyor mercy. are n :f b abeing C. "I think theyare without real Remedy, thoughnot without all Mercy infirmwill not. 3. Adam in Innocency,who could fora delayofpunffhment is mercy, eafily have perfevered, B. aueji. 2. Doyou think that they areOnly tinder the Curfe of that but did not; when tome Law as the Devilsare, without any polfibility oroffers of a remedy ; Angels did by the fame or that theyare alto fill under the Covenant-Offers of Life, upon con- degree which others had that fell. 4. That ditionof Innocency: of the Predeftinate,who C. " I cannot u o e God now too er a man Life, on condition he beno have Godsfpeçlal cuRo- f pp f f dy, before they are Goa- " Sinner, whom he knoweth to be a Sinner : For loch anoffer is equivalent firmed in Grace. es. The " to ce fentence of Death, or denial ofLife. Nor can .1 fay that they are as Graceof Confirmation, ofwhich there are five " defperate as the Devils, becaufethey know not the defperatenefs of their opini J s , (of which "Cafe. Some Lutherans fee, to .go further in this than the 3efaites or Arminians, and to deny the diftinaion of fufficient and effeaual Grace, faying that his the fame Grace that is effettual in one and not in another but I think theydiffer but in words : So Gerhard, de lib. arb. c. 6. feti. r. cancedimus fate fpititni fuels converfonis opts aggredienti multos repftere, conflium Dei adverfms feipfosfpernere ér bec ration furl culpa gra- tram converfionis a fe'repeliere: fed propterea ipfam Grat¡am in fuficientem dneficacem dividendam effe negamua,fiquidem rag eademq; Dei Gratia :(t, que in credentibae operator, ere lux ab incredalis repellitur. ' And he fuppofeth all mens Wills to be bad, and without power to convert themfelves, and that God giveth them fuck Grace as cloth nor phyfically confirain orneceffitate them or determine them;but fuch a fuitable operation asthey can refill: And fo that the efficacy of Grace is not from the Will, but from Grace it Cif i but the inefficacy is fromman: and the reafon why any are converted, is from Grace: but the reafon why any are not converted, is from their refilling that Grace ; and fo the Will of the Wicked is the differencingtaufe. Le Blank de dint. Gnat. in faffit. Src. 68,69. Romonarantes non idea Graham diflingrmnt in fafjlcientow L egicacem, good potent grahan qua, accipiant iüi qui increduli manent ee in precaria perfeverant non barren:, vim 6' effìcasiam necefaiam dr preregaifocam ad boy&c.fed idee folum grade cujra petparticipee deneganteflcatis nomen lard ifiuuto ad gram definatrtrin its reapfe non p-odorat propter impedimenta, quad tilt ponunr- .atriq; ergo docent gratia, banc faria vniurn habere ad ipfos renvertendas----niPil ergo pejess bar toparte [clonal Remonftrantes tills qui Lutherani dicantar: Atproinde cum Itefarmati boom cemmanionem non reragiwal,f d nitre cos ad pawn, &c. Magna eft bonitas Doi indandis Sonia torporis da anima : major eft borricas Dei in remittantis peccare magna & malta : maxima inpatientia, &e: Srrigel. Loc. 6o. pag. Sot. Carbo Cerapend. no. T. q. o,. a. 4. Opus divine 1oflitie temper p,af;pponir riva mi/i:rrordie; cb. in ea furdatar tarn/am ;n prima ratan gaia ne proeedatar in in¢nirum deveniendom eft ad aligu:d grind ix;nin benitare divine volantatis Á;pendeat. T to B. -;,oefi. .
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