OfSufficient andEffeaual Grace. What is the caufe (efficient) of Nero's unbelief? iinf. Hit own will or wicked heart. Ieef, 2. What is the efficient caule of Paul's Faith? Anf. I. The Principal efficient is God by his Spirit. 2. The meritorious caufe is Chrift. 3. The chief minifterial efficient is Chrift as giving the Spirit towork it. 4. The Inftrumental efficient is the Gofpel. 5. The Imme- diateefficient is Paul : For it is he that believeth, and not God. Is there any one that deniethany of this ? C. "I doubt they think that mans will is more the caufe than the Spirit ; "becaufe theyfufpend the Spiritsfuccefs upon mans will. B. Accule not men by fufpicions and doubts without proof; yea con- trary to their own profeons. Your crime of uncharitablenefs is not theirs ; nor doth it follow that they are faultybecaufeyou * Alliac. Camer.m.r. Youmay readCorvinue to 7ilenus exprefly afligning the efficiencyof all q 2d-iimB. Daú t n"lram that Grace that maketh us to 'differ, principally unto God: Some ofgnat (accipiendo . rede- them only fay [man cannot effeEt, (or convert himfelf) but he can re- ainati°ntm fe°anda srado) propter a67rrnd out : and forequire no moreof man tohis converfion but not to rqfl: alignam caatam prcvitam yeanot. to relfft inan obftinacyand high degree. Others of them require tataiidano¢gter art of man alto an aElual concurfe of his will by his power received, with q,rod bonam habere, the concurfe ofGod : But they make God here incomparably the chief Deus pritis voimiit ear ab efficient ; not only as to Priority of operation , but as to his caufation atern °,dsc. of the effect. And theyufe to illnftrate it force time as Scoter by the fimilitude of two drawing ata Ship, fometime by a Father, that Ihould bid his Son lift at a heavy weight, and refolveth to put to goo degrees of theforce himfelf if his Sonwill butendeavour , and put forth one degree. In this cafe, if the Sonwill not put forth that one which he ean, do, and fo the event fail ; it is not by the Impotency nor abfolute unwillingnefs of the Father. And if the child do put forth that one degree; will you fay that hedothmore to the effeft than the Father that Both900 parts; and that onlybecaufe that the Father would not doall himfelf? But this carrieth us from the matter in hand, and is af- ter to be fpoken to. C. "Butifyou makefo many things go to make the difference, the que- °tfiion, who made thee to differ ? muff have a long anfwer. B. Notas Paul meantit, but as ourtrotíblefome Contenders ufeit , in Even thofethat found another fenCe, the anfwer mutt be fuited to the queftion. And here note the infallibility on feien- that really it is the ftate of both parties compared, and not of one ofGracedaeaep jice ec- them that conftituteth thediffìmilitude as is laid : And the efficient eau- vertendi toe the caufe íes of both Rates, are the caufes of thedifference. And fo truly the caufe Matde adiffere , a So of Nero's unbelief, and the caufes of Paul's Faith (which are many asp. seq. °d bit credal aforefaid) all fet together are the caufes of the differences ; or rather all rarer/te, , adebte venue de snakeupone caufe of it. This no Logiciancandeny. But yet in vul- votantis "r accomodet a¡ gar fpeechwe ufe to fay that that perfonor thing is the caufe of the dif- fen / "m ; mifericerdia in- ference, i. Which is the caufe of thefingularity. a. Or which caufeth erepit, r °t"m cif mtfcren_ the ftate of the fecond perfon compared, fuppofing the Efate of the firit rie Dee ip/e vecae, ipfe fa" Perlon to be already exiftent. And fo you will find yet fevesal fences tit c total to ne/c nt terror ; ip,e nolemem Of the queftion. prevenir, or velit; v° lenrem fabfequitur ne fra-- ßra veli:, vi fua Graria ita fibi aptat liberem arbitrium; at a null° duet corde refpuatur, quaddicimas provenire ex eo quad meris, in- elfabiliuta CT occulti, maxis merit Dews ita hominismovere fenfiem at accomodet a /enlace - --Patentor Dei omnipotentiamdr Dominions quad habet in v°!antates hominem, mane /ettari in grati.e efeatia. --Et tonf<nfws ',minis gq donamDei, defcendens a P.atee luminam; rláamque contentionDews vats ertacit, quia faciehominem -viribus gratìefacers. Yea he yieldeth toBradmardines Dottrine, fuppo- ling him only to intend necefratem gpasdam confequentice,necejriom effehominem libere Celle i!lad ip[um gaedDera cu;ee omnipetentid, goccengaevoleit ferie) preve!uit iplam Celle libere. Item, gratiam effseacemdart intuitu meritorum Chrifti,.neo canton quatenae c2,, feficiens fed etiam geateoso ell etas dam /erendom propofmtum vaeat; .-It;m cura Du non eft aquális de omnibus. IS'
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