g R. 7. Ephefianr,Chap.z. 235 enlighten all. This muft be held, That neitherthe omnipotent power of creating fpirituall graces, nor yet the omnipotent action which doth produce them, is in the humane nature, or procecdeth from the humane nature working to the fame effe&s , according to the property of it. This is the order then which we mutt conceive and hold ; vq, r. The Divine nature that createth them, and infufeth them into this or that man, through Chrift man, being as a common concepta- cle and conduit, takingaway fin and the caufe, that fo way might be made for this promifed Spirit. 2. By interceding Mediator-Ile for them. 3. By willing the going of fuch graces from him, as who is with God the Son but one worker. They are therefore the works not of ahumane, but a divine perfon. For though the Nature, according to which they arewrought, be humane, yet the Perfon working, is the perfon of the Son of God. Saint Paul giveth graces by laying on of hands withprayer, but Difference be rween Chrl r. Not as if this were any way hiswork, but as intreating it from a and others in God in Chrift, whore it is. giving grace. 2. Not from power anyway within his perfon, but without him, even the power of another. 3. Not conjoyned with God , as thebody with the foul , but as an inftrument with God ; as when I ufe another thing orperfon, indo- ing this or that without my felt. Hence it is that Chrift man doth give graces tstboritaaivé & Effellivé; yea according to his hu- mane a6tion doth effe& them in the higheft degree that an inftru- mentall operation can effe& any thing : whereas Saint Paul giveth them Miniflraliter, fignifyingwhat God Both in Chrift, rather then what himfelf Both. He that planteth and watereth is nothing, all the efhcacie of hisa&ion is to get Chrift, God man to give thegra- ces he intreateth. Hence we are exhorted, not to reft in man for there graces: The pp. efh preßtethnothing, the ¡pirit quickneth ; that is, Chrifts humane Ioh.6. nature could not give all there precious benefitsunto you, unleffe the quickning fpirit did dwell in it, in whom, all fulneffc dwelleth, yee are complex.. Hath God opened untous fuch a rich treafuryin Chrift, inwhom vii.: we (hall finde no lack this difcovereth the groffe follyof Papifts, thatlook out after other Mediators, works, their own righteoufneffe, latisfa&ions, Indulgences, imputing the fufferings of men to them; they have left the Lord Jefus, and are run a whoring after their own inventions. Laftly, on this ground invite men to Chrift: How is the cafe al- PP: tcred , if a poor woman fhould marry the Prince e So, if we blinde, naked, beggerly things marry this Princeof glory, our poverty fhall be exchanged with riches. Would we have our confciences com- fortably fetled in the perfwafion of our reconcilement unto God we
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