OfSufficient and Effec uál Grace. 165 hisnatural facuitÿ, you difpofe him to a fpeedy motion : though the fimilitudedoth not quadrare per omnia , becaufe Gods influx is on the whole Soul it felf. But this Difpofition to the prefent aft, is far lets than aproper Habit; or it's another thing. C. "When I fpur my Horfe, or whipmy Dog, I do but flir up a former "faculty, or flothfssl power : But God giveth a new life and power to them " that were deadin fin. B. Yet, I cannot take wordsfor matter. r. It's nothing but the natu- ral faculty or power which you fufcitate in thebeaft : And hath not an unbeliever the Naturalfaculties or power ? Is he not a man ? Why do you not bury him, if he be not alive ? 2. Death infn is relative, or real : The Relative is Reatas mortis , which denominateth men Pies mortis , and is done away by pardon. The real is the Privation of a holy difpofition, to the aEl of Faith and Repentance, &c. or of the AEï it fell, or of the Habit. You can namenoother. Now s. the death which cotififteth in the privation of the firft difpoftion to afl (fuppofingall na- tural difpofitions) is takenaway by the first influx or fufcitation of the Holy Ghoft. 2. And by the fame in fecunda inflanti is caufed the AO, and the death gone that lay in itsprivation. 3. And (in the third in- ftant , or afterward bydegrees) is takenaway the death which liethin the privationof theHabit. And this giving the Habit, is called inScri- pture and by Divines sanllification as following Vocation , and it is wrought in us by degrees and- ot all at once , and that by theSpirits power , with and byourexercifed Alts. In my youth I was fo prema- turely confident of the contrary, that the firft Controverfie that ever I wrote on(was aConfutationof Bifhop Downam, Amefins , Medall. de Vocat) Mr. Tho. Hooker, &c. in Defence of Penible herein; but riper thoughts made me burn that Script. C. "But the fpur or rodputtethno new power at all intoyour Horfe 3 bat C. Godsspirit putteth anew Power into us. B. I have talkt long enough to you about Power before, and there- fore wouldnot turn back needlefly to fay it over again. Gods Spirit putteth no fuch thing into us, as we call a faculty or natural power : For that is the form or effence of the Soul; and our species is not chang'dby Grace. But he giveth us that which is called a Moral Power, which confifteth conjunâly in the concurrenceof meansand objet s, and the difpofition of our faculties to the alt. Hear Dr. Trade againft Hord, pag. I2. lib. 2. Hefecretly maintaineth that everyman bathfach a powerby Grace, by whichhe may repent if he will : Concerning which Tenet of his, we nothing doubt but every man bath fach a power : but wefay it is nature rather. Page 18. Truly ifee no caufe to deny this, that even the wicked could do good if they would : We may fafely fay with Auftin , Omnes pofunt Deo credere 6, ab amore rerum temporaliumad Divinaprsecepta fervandafe con- vertere, f velint. (Here is pof feconvertere, id eft, velle,f velit.) But faith Twiffe, pag. 17o. 1. a. [But fuch is the fhameful ifue of them that confound impotency moral with impotence natural, as if there were no difference] which he oft fheweth is but the want of actual and difpo(itive willingnefs. Now the rod or fpur may caufe both a prefent difpoftion, and an all of will. C. "But is this all the new Life andspirit , and Divine Nature that is "givenus? sure it is much more? B. Nodoubt but it ismuch more. But that Spirit , Life , and Nature is promifedand given to Believers, and is promifed on condition ofour acceptingChrift, in whom is our life : And therefore it is that habi- tual
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