r 6 OfSufficient and Eeîtual Grace. Mahometan, and Popifh Kingdoms, and thought that tyrannyage grand finon the earth, which kept out the Gofpel , and confequentl Godlinefs and Salvation from the generality of mankind ; that kept up Suffrag. TheolBritt. popery, and kept out Reformation ; that filenced powerful Preachers; . in Synod.9ard:' arr. 3 and kept up Ignorance that mote ferved Satan , and fed the jaws of &q. Sont uadam lean p interna ad irtute fsonem Hell. He thought of all the inhumane confequents of unreftrained Ty_ prævia qua vrrtute verbi ranny He read Politicks more than the other Ipiritu(que in,randum je- y' , and read more ofthe fliicatoram cardibua exciGreekand Roman Hiftory, and regarded more the Judgment of the fe- tantar ; "'lid .¡ant not, veral Partiesand Religionsamong mankind andhe fell u onBillonand tia velantátisdtvinæ,fer.- p fus peceati,timorpmnæ,co- Hooker the chief Prelatifts 5 and he thought that Gods Judgments con- gitatiode liberattone, [pea fequential to thofeWars had been incomparably.' lets than the mercies aliqua eeniæ. yluós Deus, mediante verba per fpiri.and benefits, and that there were now proportionably multitudesmore tamPoem bone in modern of GodlyMinitters art&People than there were'before" the Wars:. And *cit. erre &,tar,- `thefe diffèrent pre- conceptions and re-pofi'efiìons, made them have verfionemque were & (erio, p fef s nDiust. jo, quite differentInterpretations of 'all theScriptures, the Statutes, the Law rit, sec defftit;in vera ad. Books, &c. which they read. And as the Proverb is, As the Poolthink eonver/ioítem via prema- eth,fo the Belltinketh : 'So it is wonderful "tòfee inall things, how much vere; .priafquam ab jilts the divers difpofitionof the Recipients doth oecafion diverfity of ef- pernegleíüonemvolanta., riani ait bojuogratiæ ini fens from the fame caute. tialis repnlfam, deferatar C: "But I hopeyou wouldnot make us believe that all diverfftcation is a petal man : Though the Sun be but an univerfal caufe, yet God ì.r alfa a par z< ticular caufe,-ancta fpecifying 5 and Who is it elfe that caufed that diver- " fity in theCreatures, 'Which turneth the Suns univerfal Influx into various " effe&tr. As God created' the variety ofRecipienti,;' fo he doth by Grate e a diverfifae mans Receptivedifpofitions. B. Thefe are weighty matters, and deeplyto be confidered , with many thoughts and cauteloús fobriety. We have two queftions fallen before us : s. How far Gods Grace isrefflible. 2. HowGod or mando taulediverfities. Though I have been drawnon to, fpeak-much to the Taft; it is herebut inorder to the refolvingof the, firth The lait is to be ,fpoke to by it felf anon. Before we come to that, thefe things I here concludeof. I. That the IDiverfaty of Nature, or Receptive Diifpoftiáns, being pre- fuppofed, God hath an eftablifhedorder of means, and a congruous eOa- ble'fhed univerfal Concurfe , which quantum in fe, as far as belongeth to it todo, worketh equally onall. . 2. That this eftablifhed meafureof aid, or concurfe, recipitur admodism recipientis, and operateth varioufly as to the effer s, .according 'to the various difpoftion of theRecipients : from whom the ratio diverfatis is to be fetcht, andnot from it. 3. That this eflablJhedmeafure ofConcurfe or aid may bythe great- nefs of the Paveand Active Indifoftion and Illdifpoftion of the Reci- pient, be both reed, and overcomeor fruterate. virtute verbdairitrein 4. That asAdam did refill and overcome EuchGrace, fodo alI wicked fp fq haminam menttbua preda. men in home cafes now. And fodo all godly men, inmolt of the fins (if rebellis veluntatisvi- not all) which they commit. tend a/fumt, pee trñ 5 As God rarely worketh Miracles, (and we hardly knowwhen he molds foltet : adeo ut von- violatethhis eftablifhedcourbe of nature, . though 'we May know when nulls in quorum mentibus he worketh beyond the power of an fecond caufe known to us, and Virtate'' verbi fpiritafgae P Y impre jlafuit aliquales no- when he leaveth his ordinaryway) but ordinarily keepeth to his efiabli- sida vericueto divinæ,&e. fl_,ed courfeand ufeof thefecondcaufes (even in his wonders.) So it is ve- mutentur plane to contra-, rium, &c. And evenBivarev. Difpe i8, n, faith, Si non operator allionequi eff in prtecepto imputabitur illi ad colpam,egquod fuarsel- pa fe irnpedivit, ice dareter oilj auxilium eficaxquòd net=f'arium eras, ut aiivaliter operaretar : fiat fi Deus imponeret hamint. prteceptum velandi, e quantum efi ex parte leaäferret illi alas d? adjutorium necej/arium ut volaret, ipfeanc=ra relponderet, Dominenec Polo alas accipere nec velare, merits reputáreier',rens, etiamfi nonpelit abfque alisfvolare, quia fua culpa fe impedirit ne.illi:donarentura Dee. ry
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