épheans,Chap.>t, V E x. II, dome,thatjudgeth the higheft things.Let usdeny our owne wiledome, and give glory to God, acknowledging that there is wiper counfell in every thing we fuffer, then we can attalue. This may rebuke rafh indeliberate and felf- willedperfons : Some if a thing come into the head, turne them forthwith to ir, as bufìly as ifthey would goe nine waies at once : Some againe, areCo felfecon ceited, that their will muff Rand, as ifit were a Law. O it is a figneof fmall wifdome tobe fo ftrong willed, Prov.r a. r4. He that heareth coon- f11 is wife.It is good to looke before we leape,andto rememberthat two eyes fee more then one. Solomon, the wifeft for politicke wifedome, bath his fage Counfellers, whofe advifewhileRehoboam followed not, he did lofe ten parts ofhis kingdome : It is inour little perfonall com- mon-wealths,as in thofe wide ones; whereCounfelifalles allgoes to twine, Prov.11.24. Goan fellofhis will.]That is whichhis will propounded to it, did freely accept. Obferve hence, that what God willeth once, that he effeétually worketh; fee Pfalme 115. our God is in Heaven, and doth whatfever he willetb : Whobath refilledbis will ? fo Ifs. 46. I o. We fee in beans that they have an appetite to that they move after ; in men that which They will, that they put our their power to effeEl : fo it is in God,!, ifhe will any thing ; he doth worke it effeEtually. Theis a frivolous 'diftinetion ofaneffeétuali. and an ineffeótuallwill in God, which ftand- eth neither with truthof Scripture, as in this place ; nor with the bief. fedneffe ofGod ; nor with the nature of things : all that (hewed him which his will accepteth; he doeth effectuallyworke it. Againft blef- fedneffe of God ; for might God will a thing and not have it, he were notfully biefl'ed, when tohave every good will, is more bleffed then to want it. Againft natureof things, for every thing which will andability worketh ; if God almighty have will to any thing, the thing muff needs foil, .w. Wherethere is full powertoworke any thing, applied to theworking it, the thing wrought muff needs follow. HereTomedifinguifh andfay, thatin things whichGod will doe,his power doth worke them effe1ually ; butthe thingswhich Godwould haveon condition from us,thofe his power doth not worke:An oldPela- gian conceit. Would not God have us walke in his commandements, and hath hee not Paid, that he will put his fpirit in us, and make us walke in theme S. Autin learned that Goddid promiife to worke mightily thofe thingshe requireth from us. Ifto havethe conditional[ will be more happy then towant it , then God whobath power to work the condition in us, will nor want it : Not to fay that this conditi- onall is abfurdly imagined in God, hee muff will the having a thing on conditionwhich he will notworke, and then it is impoffible; unleffe the creature candoe fomething good, which he will not doe inhim ; or on condition which he will worke, and thenheworker h all he wil- leth ; oron fuch a condition which he feeth the creaturecannot per forme, not himfelfe will not make him performe ; and this were idle landfrivolous. The
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