OfSiticiéiat,ai2clEffeElual Grace. a, That there is any man to whomGod givethameer Power, neither difpofed, norprovoked to the A& For I. Mans natural faculty it felt, betides natural power, hath all thefe aptitudes to the A&. a. Man bath felf-love, and a delire of felicity, and an unwillingnefs and fear of Helland Mifery, and of all that he knoweth doth tend to it as fuch. Hecan feek for Glory, Honour and Immortality, R.M. 2. And there fore God thus argueth with men, Ezek. 33. Tarn ye, whywill ye die ? And a Pet. 3. to. He that loveth life, and would fee good days , &c. as making tile of a common principle. 2. Man hath reafon to underf}and what is told him of Good and Evil infome fort,, and Nature containeth a Law written in the heart, Rom. 3. by 'which the Heathens did muchof that which was written in the Scripture. 3. Man hath a Confcience toaccufe and excufe, 4. Hebath miler, andneceffity to move him : which may be known tohim by common light and experience. 5. Sin, as fin is in common difgracein the World : And Nature teach- ethMankind to diffìnguifh moral Good and Evils fo that the wadi do notlove andown finas fan : Anddid notSatan hide it with fome vail of goodnefs, he could not draw them to it. Even thofe that murdered Chrift, did it on a falfe pretence that he was alSinner. 6. Mans nature hath an enmity to Devils, and a fear of them. And thereforewill fly from evil fo far as they perceive the Devil in it ( for the moll part.) For he is theirknown Enemy.' 7. Laffly, All doknown that they muff die, and that this Worldwill ferve them but a little while g And they have great 'experience of its vanity and vexation: And Nature teacheth moff, and the GofpeI muchmore, that mans Soulis immortal, and therefore that there is a Reward for the Good, and Punithment fortheBad hereafter. 2. And as depraved Nature it felfbath certainly all thefe advanta gesfor good; fo God addeth by his Works andWord manyvehement Motives, Perfwafions, and urgent Exhortations, Examples, Mercies and Corre&ions: And all thefe may give the Soul much more than a barepower tomany good a&s : For many fuch are really done by bad men 9 And to othersthey are almoft perfwaded, when they difobey. 2. You muffnot fuppofe, that juff the fame degree of means or help is neceffary to oneman asto another i or tothe fame man ever at feveral times. For one mans Soul may be more undifpofed and ill difpofed than anothers : And the fame mans more at one time than at another. And temptationsand impediments may be greater at one time, and to one man than another. Experience affureth us, that lefs teaching will in., form one mansaunderffanding than anothers. C. "Havenot allmen thefame degree of Original Sin ? Whatcanbefaid "more of any than isfold of all, that they aredead in fin ? B. I. The fame word [Dead] may be ufedof all, if it were words only that you plead for. But that word proveth not that all areequally eitherguilty orcorrupted. For though Adam's fin be thefame to all, yet Ihave before told you ( and chewed you betides Scripture, Auguiline's judgment for it ) that there is alfo a participation ofGuilt of nearer Pa- rents fins by Infants ; And confequently of Pravity : Were it but the ill temper of body which many Drunkards and Adulterers convey to their Children, experience tellethus that it dothmuch in hindering the Soul.j And ali arenot equal inthis derivationof Original Sin. V 2 2, And 147
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