i4o OfSufficient and E&eEual Grace. B. Aue.I1. 3. Do you think all thedifference between the dm na De vils Beth in delayand ignorance of their mifery? Then the moll: ignorant and prefumptuous of them is the lealt miferable, though the molt enful ç which cannot be? kul. 4. But do you thinkthat noMercy is to be offered to fuch ? C. " Tes : becaufe we knownot whoare EleEl, andwho not. B. Ruea. S. Are we to offer men mercy only as Eleit ? or rather as sinners and miferable, under a Lawof Grace? and asSubjes of God obliged by that Law toaccept it ? C. " We offer it to all Sinners, that the Eleïl may receive it. B.guef. 6. Are none but the Elea under a Lawof Grace, as the rule of their Duty, their expeâation and ofJudgment? C. " othersmay be under the Obligations of it, but not under the Grace "of it. B. Remember then, r. That they arenot lawlefi. 2. That they are not under that meer violated LawofInnocency, [ Be innocent and live., 3. That they are under the Obligationsof theLawofGrace. P.Iteft.7. Is there anyof them that are not bound to life certain means appointed ofGod, in order towards their own Salvation? C. " 7hey arebound to intend their own Salvation, and with that inten- " tion to life fame means : But God intends itnot. f B. Juefl. 8. Doth God command men on pain of damnation to any vain endeavours, or nfe ofmeans ? C. r. "Hecommandeth it not in vain : for it pallmake them unexcufe- " able. s. They are not tojudge theirendeavours vain, becaufe they know "it not. 3. Butin the iffueailwill be in vain to them. B. weft. 9. Would it be in vain to them, if they really did the ut moltthat common Grace enableth any men to do? C. r. " It is not properly Grace to them, andfo not common. 2. It "would be invain to them. B. veil. so. Is that vainwhich bringeth aman into the neareft prepa- ration for fpecial Grace, and neareft to theKingdom ofGod ? C. " To the Elea it is not vain : Nor to others for their fakes : Nor to "others, as to the lejning of their painsin Hell : But as to their Salvation, " it is. B. Quell. u. Who would it be long of (or be reputed the Caufe ) if it be in vain. C. "of themfelves , who are born in fin from Adam , and are Vnbe- " lievers. B. You fuppofe it impoffible for them to believe, and impoffible for them not to be the Children ofAdam. They made not themfelves, andyou fuppofe that for want of Gracetheycannot believe. ,osefl.Is. When Death (hall acquaint them with the impoffibility that they were under, doyou think, r. That it will be the way of glo- rifying the Jufticeof God in Judgment, tohave the World know that he condemneth Sinners meetly becaufe he will condemn them, for that which they never had any more true powerto avoid, than to make a World ? 2. Or will their Confciences in Hell accufe themor torment them for that which they then know was naturally impoffible, and cauld by God. C. " We knownot howGodwill glorifie his I:spec, or how their Confci- " ences will torment them. It may be they (hall then be as ignorant of the " necetating caufeas now. B. I.
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