0fSïefficierit and Effec`5úal Grábe B. I am forry that unwillingnefs and willingnefs cando fo muchwith you about thefe matters. ButI pray tell me; c9 eí1:4. What is it that youmean by Nature? C. "Daman thatfixed order of beingand operation which Godput all Re things in at their Creationat the beginning. B. Youhave done as the Incendiaries of theChurch have done from Media aúeem de tnaia tr the beginning ofcontentious Dilputes : youhave chofenaword unex- Mcdi4 ér ° ttever- plained tomake amatterof reproach of, which hath fo many fignifica- bumer ¡pintu: Wasen- tions, and is founcertainlyufed, that Philofophers themfélves, even in on jahg pa inbo vita their greateft accuratenefs, know notwhat to fixupon; though thereare gNibu (Deus ad eundera few words which they are more concerned to beagreed in,if they could. pnem utit, zra in But where the thing is unknown, no wonder if there be difcord about setì8. Prvar. Thef. }[: the Name. Fortun. Licetut alone de naturaprimo movente may fuffice to evince this. But I,perceive you take not Nature for Principium motto et quietis, &c. nor for the effence of things, matter or form, or both : nor withstatus de potentia for the pave power, nor in otherfenfes ufually intended by various Writers : But for the createdftatur b ordo reruns, and the motto thereby alone caufed. And if this be NATVRE with you, youcat your felt into inextricable difficulties to know what you fay. For a. Weare very much ignorant of fecond Caufes, and their concatenation and co-operations 3 who ever took in pieces this great Engine of the Univerfe ( as mendo a Clock or Watch ) to find out the formand compaginationof each part ? orever underftood it. 2. Who can tell certainly what is done by this compagination of Caufes and Author Fidel eft fpirituá co-operation according to its primitive fíate, who knoweth not the Path" qs 9ufuss mittit wholeEngine, but fume parts alone ( not tomuch as one fand is to the rum dr vrcarium /uumä. whole Earth) feeing that it is the wholethat co-operatethto the fore- ió ' caam i aunde defcribed motions ? And 3. Who knowethhow far God bath fixed the rn/trumentum eft evangel.- ftate andoperationof fecond Caufes? and how far heis pleated toalter um feu verbum pile., them from their firft Rate and courte of motion , or daily doth it ? cbre o1quem fpeiritso ins-' 4. And who is fowell acquainted with the Rateof the Univerfe in the tellebini propontt & pew Creation, and the Rate of it now, as to be able tomake an accurate fnadet. Thef. 4..seaue. Privat. TbsGgp,.SeCt.5é comparifon, and tell whether or howmuch it is focethen altered ? or whetherall things continue juttas in thebeginning. ; 5. Yea it is certain, that agreat alterationwas made both on mans Soul and Body, and on -theEarth by the finof Adam, and the Curfe. 6. And it is certain, that God maketh muchufeof theMiniftryof free Agents inthe affairs of the World, even ofAngels, Devils and Men, whole voluntary contingent a&s (and confequently their effe&s) go not as a Watch or Clock in one conftant natural courfe of motion. HoW then can you tell here what is natural as to a great part of the changes uponman ? C. "Ton would make me believethat WORDS are fo defective as to " deludeus and befool us all, and that nothing men faycan bennderflood. " Doth not all the World diftingstifhbetween Natureand Grace ? B. The vanity of fpeculative Sciences , and the mifery of Mankind thereby, and thereafonofPaul's contempt of thePhilofophy then pre- dicated, and the cauCe of all our love-killing Contentions, cannot be Sins h polli oe fpeciati Oaxilab i®' s nihil boni Rita creatura rationali fieri eft terti¡pmum. Sedan hoc auxitian Gratia fitvalnatatis 2)ivin.evolentis Iliad ahfoltiée commoniiare, & per illad eommunica- tues Wagedonutsoperati, ei is rontroverfia po[rtum Tbealogis : nec immerito, cum vox abfodate in Scriptoria non ínveniator,: &d. Armin. exam. Perkinf. de pend. Sett. 6. pag. 5o1. Amongmany others, read but Vafque7 ens Tho. & Pet. aS. Jofeph de Audit. divin. (irsThef. tiniverf. & [pee, G moral,) &Rain, &Bellarmin. deAudit. And you may feehow much fupernaturality the Papilas Band for: Indeed for more than thePretettanrs in fume cafes, as in aiterting the fupernaturaliry of Adam's firft Righteoufnefs, &c. And many of the Schóol men fpeak higher of Infufion.than mutt Prorofl4see, fa that this solit6 wilt not prove the difference. Madilieii
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