I OfSufficient and EffeEival Grace. to all things in theworld 5 and therefore muff do all that he any way doth in loch attingency. C. " Explain it and rejolve it your felf , ifyou like not my Explica_ " tion. B. Gods operations arecalled Phyfical or Moral, r. In regard of God theAgent. 2. In regard of the means or fecond caufes. 3. Or in re- fpe&of the effeti. I. In refpe&of God theAgent they are not properly eitherPhyfical or Moral, but tranfcendently they are above both 5 for they are his Effence and Will, which is the tranfcendent Head of all operations and caufes, Phyfical 'and Moral. H. As to the Means or fecond caufes , thofe ads of God that have no fuch means or caufes are not here concerned : And as for all thofe that have fuch means, no doubt but they are to be called both Phyfical and Moral: for Morality is but Modality or Relation ex rerum ordine. And all Order, Mode and Relation , is Alicujus enti: orde, Modus 6 Relatio. And e. g. preaching the Gofpei , is fuch an aû ofa Phyfical and MoralAgent, as is it felf both Phyfical and Moral. Man is gkedam natura, and yet Intelle&ual and Free: And his aft is 'quidphyficunt in genere enti: 5 and yet quid morale in genere maris , dim imputanda juxta l egem morals:. III. And as to the Effeû, it is nodoubt, bothquid phyficum (for Faith is sails realis) and quid morale : For it is morale bonum, & ita reputanda. Andwill any Arminian deny any of this, that underftandeth words? Where thenis your difference in this ? C. "But when youdfpute about Pre - determination , you canfay it is " not Phyfical : what meanyou byit then t? B. We marvail that men fhould fay that God phyfically pre-detërmi- neth the Will to allacts of fn in the fpecifying circumifances, when as he pre- determineth it notreally to them at all, either phyfically or mo- rally. So that it is here a Real efficient motion of God to the evil a&, whichwe deny. C. " And it is a Real efficient motion of God , to the ati of Faith and Repentance which we affrt, andmean by the word Phyfical. B. And this your Adverfaries will not deny: and fo you are in this agreed. The Papifts who are molt for meet moral o- perations in this Con- troversiie, yet have fuch Grange opinions about the phyfical operations of Sacraments ( e. g. aaptifm on Infants) as that they make them to be inftruments of Mira- cles', the Miracle being fire wrought upon them (e.g. the water,and then on the receiver. Yea they feem tomake God to operate miraculoufly with everySacrament. Ármiaita profeffeth Faith and repentance Nip Deo dance haben non pofte. Exam. Perk. pag. 57, and that both of them are denied to the Reprobates by the De- cree of Reprobation. See his own words, At Dews /Limit Decreto re- probationis reprobis fidem, dr pcenitentiam nondare, conceda Wens illam al- fumptionem, fed rah in- tellecîans. Twig's again/ Hord, p.7o. 1. r. The fourth Grimination. C. " I doubt they hold not Faith to be infufed , but acquired: whereas " Dr.Twiffe fheweth the difference to befo great , that an unjullifiedperfon "may have an Acquired Faith about the fame objects, when yet only an In- "fufed Faith willju,Rife. B. I. Tell not me what youDoubt, but what you Prove, unlefs you meanno more, than to tell meof your injuftice and uncharitablenefs : I find the Jefuites and Lutherans commonly afferting an Infufed Faith, and I have met with few Arminians if any that ,deny it 5 though the word be not fo much in ufewith them. 2. But becaufe you that are the Acculer are fuppofed to underftand what you fpeak againft, I pray help me to underftand it. u t. What mean youby Acquired Faith? C. " That which we ourfelves get by our ufe ofmeans and confideration. B. f2ueft. 2. Is thereany man in his wits that denieth Faith to be the effe&of confideration? Do you not think what and why you muff be- lieve,
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