OfSuuficiént and Effectual Grace. i 67 C. " ï dare not deny this, becaùfe it is agreed on by all Philofophical Di- " vines, and I fháuld be called a Blaf hemer, if Iaffirmed any real diverfty in God, at leaf, befdes the Trinity of Perfono , called by the school-men " RealRelations, and by fome real modes of being. But it furpathmans "nnderfanding to conceive, that the fame caufe no way differing, ex parte " fui, fbould produce variety of ,fleas. By which it feerneth , that when " there was nothing bìtt God, his love to Jacob and bit hatred to Efau, his " decree t ofäve and todamn, his will to make the world , and to defiroy "it, his fore-knoivledge ofgood and evil , had no real difference at all. "Arid is it not fonnezhat of a lye then in ris, to call thofe aas different, or " by different »antes , which really have not the haft difference at all. (But " of this before.) B. God were not God , if mans Ihallowwit could comprehendhim. All this mutt be confelt, unlefs youwill be a Vorliian : But ifour con- ceptions be not falfe, our diverfityof naines here is no lye ; becaufewe intend but to denominate Gods knowledge and decrees or will, but by the relative connotationof the things known andwilled. And though thole things were nothing before the Creation , and fo the difference between Gods Decrees, &c. was really none at all , and the n cogni- trsmwas nothing brit Gods fimple Effence : Yet as Greg. Armin. hath difputed, there be fome kind of Relations (which are nothing them- felves) and confequently denominations which may be terminated on nothing (as preeteritu& futuraate.) Rift if your underflanding ref} not here, dö as I do , ref} in a neceftary and willing ignorance ; and be btit fo wife as not to trouble the Chureh with that which you know not; nor imitate them that can thew the valour of theirraging zeal , by Wri- Ling or Preaching againft them as the enemies of the Grace of God , which dote not as confidently as thenifelves. C. " But what fayyou to Dr. Twiffe'swords againHoed, (1. r. p. r 56.) Albeit it benot in the power ofnature to believe fide infufa, yet is it in "the power of nature to believe the Gofpel fide acquifita which depends "partly on a mans Education , and partly on Reafons confidering the cre- dibility of the Chriftian way, by light of natural obfervations above all "other ways in the world. B.1.9' Not onlyhe,but all the School-men diftinguifh acquired and ín- Pet. a S. 3a1epb. The]; fufed Faith: But though the names found otherwife, the difference pn86rfDá,uGat gaoÁdo- meant by them is in the effefls only (and the means) and not in God. nun Grati, Diceinitas eu- $emeaneth that a flight ineffèlival beliefmay be performed by that dif- fn ¡m quod polt aperarla rem in anima no(ira ba- pofitionor moral power which is found before fpecial Grace, as exci- bitaaliter germanet: Da- ted by good Education and helps : But an effeétual laving Faith mutt be ri gratiamhabitaalem lam 2+,detur e/fe de fide, port the produft of a fpecial imprefsof Gods Spirit on the Soul ; which is a'(ancit. Tdentin :ante! fpecial difpoftion and moral power to that ad. And thisis true: And no tame, non scat habit" gratte fanttificantis rea- more can be truly meant or laid. liter a cbaritatedi/tinen- 2. But I will tell you a myftery added oft byDr. Twiffe, which may to (which oo others deny) much moderate your judgment about the caufe of mens condemnation, Gtit hominem in /taro ¡c- ifit be true. He holdeth that noman is condemned for want of an infu- tern taratg &c. fed Faith. The Reader that will perufeCafp.Peucer'.r Hix carter.pag.69z,693, &c: May fee that tine Lutherans were more for Infufion and miraculous operations ofGrace , and may fee a handfom explication of Converfion, and the operation of the Word and Sacraments t and pig. 698. De embus humans in renafcentibus ér Cenatis slum fit eonverlio cadeinceps ad finem. Credo quad gratuiti beneficii ac merit, Chrifli [aleatoric applicati, dr nature mortue ratioin regeneratione non fit ailione phyfica & brata aut rapt! Entbefia(Eico, art Stoic, coáftione, aufMagico afjlatu verbi, Sacramem tornm deft. fana,. Wee mutation, Phyfica ant Mágica, hyper'phyfica /r.bliantiæ, temperament, ea, virium fen facoltatem heminis fen- tientis qurdem, ne, mavent.i fe neo quìrgaam ageetls, fed [oftinentis tantum impreìorrem, ut fobieitara patiens, flout rave revi ^oi[cunt a :,pore fait, &c. By thisyou may fee what this excellent mad, MelanEons Sear. in-taw fuffeied his ten years cruel impri- fonment for, by the inftigation of scbmidelinus and other Lutherans, totheir perpetual (haute , and who was then (as the Pa- p& frill are) mob for Phyfical infubons es opere operato in Word and Sacraments. C. How ?
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