Of Sufficient and Efeeual Grace. i 8 5 htion or ilidifpofition of any. And as to the good d.ifpofition or Prepa= rationof Souls, nodoubt but he is the principal Caufe. of, it all : but not the foie Caufe, nor (always at least) the neceffìtating Caufe; but oft giveth men that neceffaryhelp by whiçh they might have been pre- pared for more, when yet they are not through their wilful refiftánceor neglect. For few men will deny that men have fufficient uneffeaual Grace for fome preparatory alts, though not for faith. . Ad. 2,_2. I told you that the difference in the effects, refulteth front the Caufes inboth Subje&s, andnot in one only : That which maketh one abeliever, and theother an unbeliever, maketh them differ. And I have told you what thefeCaufesare. Butfurther; I fuppofe as afore. faid, a certain eftablifhedorder and degree of univerfal ,help, external and internal, by Chrift to the Soul, as the Sun affordeth to inferior Bo- dies : This ftablifhed OrderofGrace, univerfally aflordeth,fuch a degree of Divine Influx and help , as will caufe faith in a prepared Soul, and will not caufe it infome much unprepared Souls : (For if as little help would ferve the unprepared as the prepared, to what ufe is preparation, quomodo recipitur ad modem recipientis 3) In this cafe now the efficient of Grace is God, : and not Man 3 but * the Ratio próxima of thediffe- w That even ltfuiry rence in the event And effetês is the Diverfe difpoftion of theRecipients. 1j0 is meth, rtha rte But here, mark well, that it is not the gooddifpofition or preparation Ratio di¡eriminiswhy one of one party, that is, the only, and I think, not the chief reafon of petfon tthert isfrom the difference; but the Privative and Pofìtive indifpofition of theother God, initially and prin- party, is as much, if not, the chiefeft reafon. If one man(hut his eyes a yallbeginningn ñr man. againft the light, when another doth not, the Ratio difcriminis why see Xrai7 proving it at one man differeth from another in feeing and not feeing, is ou both large in all his Traft. parts, but principally on his part that fhutteth his eyes; becaufe the . D;rp.ordir=s for Pee other doth but what he was made to do, and all living creatures fhould rhs is ro difference be- do: But the otherabfurdly croffeth nature. So that under an univerfal ¡emaintaineheharane Influx and help, the faid Influx is the efficient of the aecion or effelc but fUem 'Ail ell di /p ¡oio- thedifpofition of the Recipients are the occafions and Reafons to beof "o , meriti ant impOra- ternit. Seft. t. Ditp. 'q. fignedof the various effects; but efpecially the incapacityofthedefective z4. And one would party. As the reafonwhy the Sun Both make a Treebear fruit, and not think eventhis noa!d a dead flock, is becaufe the Tree is an apt recipient of its influx, but the minas. sat hemeanerh flock or (lone is not. only that this dífpoft- 2. But, (Note)that in cafe that God operate not by fuck an univerfal fary.Hee l atlw Il inbréf Influx only , but alto by fitperadded fpecial or extraordinary degrees of feewhat the Schoolmen particular Grace, which by a difference from the univerfal Influxor de- gree, is peculiarly apt to procure the effe/ìs , here the ratio difcriminis 'heni citedby Soie ibid. is principally tobeafcribed to that fpecial Grace, and not to the prepa- saber naure°ran'dor in rations on theSoul. preparation. Greg. Ar- C. " Tell me then, whatyou think, whether God works by fach an uni- meo. in z. d. =s. y. r. a. r. fpeaketh mot{ like " verfal Grace, or by fach a fpecial Grace. I. How far doth he work by the reformed. "univerfal Grace? 2. Is that univerfal Grace ever efTetáual of it felf, on Aug. debo"oper/evee,c.s: "p rearedSouls? Howfardoth he al o ufe the fpecial particular Grace ear Gratin emm nsn p 3 f f f ¡etundam mer![a hominem "whichyou mentioned ? drew ? xe¡p. Apia Deus ii. I. To your firft Qu. I anfwer, r. God in the beginningmade man- kind a ecree, « cur. °ergo upright in Adamand Eve, and made no difference as to the pre- [pendre , eniam news Pent cafe. Pew jedés e t. 2. Eve having firft finned, did makea differencebetween herfelfand Adam, whichGod made not, nor altered firfthis univerfal Grace. 3. Adamnext (without Gods alteration) by Sindiddifference himfelf fromhimfelf (as hewas before). 4. God then let p a newuniverfal Grace; even Chrift with the new Covenant, and Recovering means, togive out univerfal help fuited to B b his
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