Tito OfSufficient and Éegual Grace: " Grace to man, and to give out the Spirit in that ftated order and "meafureasis fuitable to his defign andSubjelPs. And as on earth he "gaveout much light andhelp which was refilled and rejelled , 1 now lefs "wonder that it isfo now he is inheaven 5 even as to his spirit as well as "his Word: When I confider, that though God be Infinite, his Grace is gi- " ven out tomankind finitely, by a finite Creature, Christ as man 5 even "as Godfhineth to m, not immediately, but by the Sun. I will no " more then account it an injury to God, that he fhduld be faid to give li- Ce mited and refiftible degrees of Grace by Chrift , but repent that I have "fä muchgrieved and refilled the spirit of Chrifi my felt. B. Proceed nowto yourother acpufation. The eighth Crimination. itemon4r. Synod. ebi ac C. "Theymake mansFree-will, andnot Gods differencingGrace to supra. Di perdu,. qna be the caufe that oneman byFaithdothdiffer from another that hath fit tan/a cur bic converti- ".noFaith. Contrary to. Paul's fuppofition , who made thee todiffer? cur, non autem sUe? Re- " Tilenus could not anfwer Camero to this charge. /pondemru, bictanvrrtüur g piaDen bunt non appo- B. I doubt here again is a Controverfie about words. I will fpeak to aentem novam lonos you as to one thatwould. know the truth. r. De re, as to the Contro- ameonvertit: Ille nanton- vertitur quia novam con- verfie. 2. As to themeaningof the Text. tnmatiam opponit: Qua- I. Let us here confider, i. What it is toDiffer 2. What are the caufes res, cur bit opponit novam contumacia,', alter nons of fuch difference? Refpondemtes, Hie opponit I. To D I FF ER is nothingbutto bedifmile, unlike. Dijmilitude Oa non opponit quiaua gratis or Difference is a Relation. This Relation (as Ockam truly and largely moveten ne opponere velit. flreweth) is nothing extra insellellum, betides itsfundamentum, fubjeaae m wares , anon ille pi non opponit novam tontu- ô'' terminus, the Abfolieta. madam & per conlequens II. Difference then being. a Relation is the diffimilitude of divers per- liaigrtirnr,ma7orembabe- onscompared. Here the natural numerical difference of perlons, and bat graha , quam qi, op- f p pons, et- per toniequens abundanceof other differences are prefuppofed. And it is the Diffe- n,n,R tcetRe/ppæe tedenemr - rencebetweena Believer andan `Unbeliever, the Penitent and Impenitent venientem gratiam aqua- as fuch, that we have to confider of. Now here are two subjeti`s differ- tom elfe poffe: Jed coop- in g and in each one if not two differences from the other: So that lantern habit prior, c'a son ' ' polterior. here are two , if not four feveral Relations of diffimilitude between them. r. Paul is a Believer 5 by which he differeth a. From Nero as a Privative `unbeliever. 2. Asa Pofitive Unbeliever. On the other fide Nero 1. asa privative Unbeliever: 2. and a pofitive, differeth from Paul. Now everyone of thefe Differences or diffimilitudes have a fe- veral caufe. r. The fundamentumof both Paul's differences from Nero are hisown Faith 5 and the Termini are Nero's Privative and Pofitiveun- belief. 2, The fundamenta of Nero's difference from Paul are his Pri- vative and Pofitive unbelief, and the Termini are Paul's Faith to both. Now ifthe queftion be, what doth Conflitutive make Paul differ from Nero, it mutt be anfwered Paul's Faith and Nero's unbelief. For diffimili- tude refulteth from the one compared with the other. And if both had beenBelievers there had been no difference. And fo were this theque- Rion, there wereno difficulty in it at all. But the meaning of the que{hon is not of the constitutive caufe of the diffimilitude, or the undamentum, but of the efficient caufe of that fundamentum, or elfe offthe diverfifying Difpofttio Receptiva. Now fuppofing that Faith and unbeliefare the conflitutive differencing cau- fes 5 the efficient roofer of both mutt be fought as the Ratio difcriminis, and not of one only. .
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