i6o OfSufficient andEpinal Grace. B. I. Whodo you know that callethReafon and natural Free-will in it felt confidered, by the nameof Grace : I knownot any fuch? 2. But I. Reafon as reprieved inorder to recovery, and Reafon as illuminated by common Grace, (and fo Free-will) are certainly a fort of common Grace. 2. And Keafon as f ecially illuminated,and the Will asfreed from Sin, arefpecial Grace. But now you fee the injuryof your Charge, will youfearch and fear, left even by contending, it's you that have run into worfer than the Error which you declaimagainft as other mens. Is it not you that call a great deal of Gods Grace by the name of Nature, yea fometimes of Wrath; andas I before evinced, deny much common Grace tobe any Graceatall ? And who wrongeth God more? He that honoureth his Works of Nature with an undue title (ofGrace)? or he that utterly difhonourethhis Grace, and faiththat itis noGrace ? The third Crimination. C, "7hey make Grace tobe but a moral Operationor fmafion, and feem * The untruth of this cc to deny that phyfcal operation which is eminently Grace : or at leaf! take common Charge ap- " i pearerh in the following t to be hut a phÿfióal ufe of moral means; And indeed l doubt whether citations. "feme. of them confefs any other Grace than the Gofpel andother means of Voeatioifta tam extern efb " Grace ? .And o the Spirit mull work only on the Preacher, or on the found gum interns : extnna per f minifierium tominam ver. cc ofwords, if he worknot immediately and phyficallyon the heart. * nampr eperati, cater- B. Still I fear that youare guiltyof ftriving about words tono profit, per eptrationem fpm- Y g Y g p > ticsfanlii illuminants & but fubverfionofthepeoples Charity. ear emis at attends- I, Moralhath ufuallythree different fenfes. a. Moral is as much as tar usgasdteautur,fidefg; . Y. verbaadbibeatar:exnti- &putative; As he that concealeth or encourageth a Traytor or Mur- afq; concur¡n , efeacitas derer or defendeth not'the aflàulted, is , ex lee morum, reputed and voeattonis exiftet. r/ta judged eft generis f as guiltyof theTreafon or Murder. And . thus caufa morali: is in ¡petses, fed tatane in ufUallybut canfa exlege morum reputata. partes, boa eß tetalir no- catones to partiales atti. 2. Moral is oft taken for Ethical, or that which isex generemarls, ei- ones, en. ArminDyput. therGood orEvil, Virtue or Vice, which contain all morality. Privat. TheG4n.Seftrq Moral is oft o ofed. tomeerl natural forced, bruitith &c. ) and 3. Remonft, snod. art. 3. p.. meaneth the. afrionofa free Agent a`fuch. Ìn whichofthefe fenfes, or p. rp, &c. Si quaratnr what other do you takeit. exobis an Dei converten- tis auto tamen moralis C. " Imean thefrfl, that God cloth but operate ut caufa moralis per mo- nvtf do 'R ro on , o, " duro. proponentis objeáum ; which Dr. Twiffe faith is but in genere Plafgnam maralemeffe, da canfx finalis, andfo isbut operatlometaphorica. ft excitantem fpettem,a B. It's pity that Chrift's Difciplesmutt be troubled with fuchuncertain graham dieimus in ipfam xelunnemquoq;pateneeam arbitrary notions, without neceflity. But what remedy: a. I know fapernaturalem enfundi di- no Law that forbiddeth me to diffent fromDr. Y"mifi, oryou in Logick fi netteom d1 or Ph tick,. I do not believe that ob'ellumqua tale is cau a finalis And i veto co-operanrem, di- Y ` J ! .% . cenass earn pb,fiea; velan no wonder 5 For 2. I hold that to be no proper caufe which you call pofl'e, realem att pro- commonly coup malts ; And inflead of advancing eachObject to the prtamßaberee(facrenttam.] Y f f Note here their plain dignityof a final caufe, I take down thefinal eaufeto the order or rank and i fnfed of Yfcal of the prime Object of Volition or Intention. Tobeoptimum is the I Si quaratur an prater Ratio objetliva primaria, it beingmolt fuitable to the Will. To be me- meets a excitatronem,r dixnsäd optimum' is the Ratio ob)etliva feeundaria. Bonum qua tote non volantatis invitationem agit in voluntatem, fedvoluntas inbonum cognitum: Though the cognitio 'awl faciat Gratta per boni ddth dirigere volstntatem. When it is commonly -laid; [ob finens tkodamprincipii eel ante- cedente ad conver/lonen, ansatum volo medium, the prepofition deceiveth us, as if the caufalitas iiefponaneas facere, Id. finis were upon the Will: But it meaneth nomore abut that the Aptitude ibid. - of
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