150 OfSufficient and Effelual Grace. _ give them agreater proportionof gracious means * and helps than to rrareaanr Divines do others, but leaveth them under the common helps which convert the commonly conjoyn the°more preparedSouls. Not that God always dothfo For oft times to operWÓdas as hisEleEt he dothas he . did byPaul, or theEunuch, vouchfafe themex- p=as, and in tome cafes traordinary means. For as a Benefaûor he is free, and may do with More. his own as he lift, and may make Veflels of Mercy and Honourof them Ver.a.s. DThom. doset q. Y2. de that deferved worft. And the cafeoftheTyrians and sidonians, com- eism rnclinare . Volnntatem ad aligaid pared with theirs of Capernaum and Befhfaida, doth prove, that lefs aer dum, earn ',Peer- means areproportionable to force as being lefs ill-dif ofed when greater ter ér phyjice predaermi- g p , panda, non faux imredi to othersmay beuneffe&ua1.. ate, fed etiam `wed:are III. And then as toebjeÉlive Grace, it being the fame God, the fame aliqua emirate , recepta , in volanpate: ,. ex mentr Heaven, the fame Chrift, and the fame Promife which is fet before all D. rho. Dear mover oes- that have the Gofpel, this cannot be the Controverte. Though the re- pes icafas ér cos vealing means be divers withmany, is not the ObjeEt,.:nor the Means app/icat ad feat operatic- , net, ita ut "etiam quand; to all. anovet veluntatem, ¢liquid IV. AU that remaineth then to be ueftioned is the EffrEi which is imprimis in ¡ILO; per me- rf , dam tranfeuntie.] Alva-fubjelliveGrace : whether that Grace in one man which is but fufrcient, rez de Aux. difp. z3 beefficient,inanother ? orin the fame man at feveral times. And here V. ßr4 by thisfubje11ive Grace is.meant either, a. The vis impreffá. 2. Or the Power. 3. Or the Aft produced. 4. Or the Difpofitionor Habit. The two latter are Ihut out ofthe queflion i which is not whether the Al or Habit be fufficient andeffeítual, but whether the Grace be fo that is tocaute them. Whether this vis impreffabe always caufed bymeans with Gods Power ..fet home (aS.the imprefsofa Signature by the Arm andseal) or be caufed immediately by God, without any proper means, the word be- ing but a Concomitant, and not mediateOperator, is made a Contro- verfie by fouie.: But he that well confidereth the Scripture here abouts, and the experience ofman, will be likelier to think that. it is God by means that ordinarilymaketh the imprefs onthe Soul, and that the fame imprefs is the effeEt of both, though extraordinarilyGod can do with- out means. For r. It is moft likely that God (hould work on man molt agreeably to his nature, and to his fubjel ftate under God his Governor.. 2. And Chrilt himfelfas our Teacher and Example, and all his Gofpel, are appointed to this ufe. 3. The Miniftry and Ordi- nances are appointed to the fame end ; And Minifters commanded to fit theirteaching to thatend. 4. Nomancan prove that ever any carne to aetual Knowledge, Faith or Love, but by tome means. Experience tellethGods Servants that he worketh by them. 5. Themolt apt and powerful ufuallyhave heft fuccefs 5 andthofe proffer molt in Grace that ufe means beft, and thofe fpeed worft that ufe them leaft. 6. God ftriltly commandeth theufe of the means asmeans for that end, that his Grace maybe-wrought by them. 7. God promifethhis bleffingon the means: AEI. 26. r7, r8. 1 fend thee to open their eyes, &c. Rom. r. 16. The Gofpel is the Power of God tosalvation. 2 Tim. 4. 16. Thou fhalt fave thyJiffand them that hear thee. Jam. 6.laft. He that converteth a Sinner, faveth a soul from death, &c. 8. WhenGod forfaketh a Nation, by takingaway the means, he ufually forfaketh them as to further Grace. 9. The Devil feemeth toknow this by his earneft oppofition to a holy powerful Miniltry, and other means throughout the World 5 fo that wemay faywithCypriam, Spill. 69. ad Pupian. Vt etiam qui non crede- bant Deo Epifcopum conflitnenti , vel Diabolo credebant Epifeopum pro- fcribenti. But
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