VER. tò. pheftanr, Chap.z. 26, 4. Defire to draw on others to grace. Life, when grown to ftrength, is generative : So it is in all who are quickened with the life of Chri(t, they labour to breathe the fame lifeinto others, efpecially when come to anygrowth in grace. This letteth us fee the wretched follyand madneffe of many,who yfe3. will not flick utterly to deny this point of themfelves, they are no M n that rc changelings,the men they were. And wife ones think it would argue to cha+ige. them to be of great levity, ifthey fhould be afhamed of the wayes to which they have HI accuflomed thernfclves; they count is fond fickle lightneffe, not to keep on the fame courfe, to be more devout, more curious and circumfpeet, ¡bye of their companions to which they are inhaun;ed; this they account an unflaid fondneffe, and a fruit of an unfctled brain. Workmanfhlp created.] This doth teach us , That in thewhole work Doflr. ofmans regeneration, he doth neither confer any thing, neither it able to roconverfion refill thefeme : for theproperty of a creation is this that it neither neither nfrr, nor is holpen,nor canbe refitted by the thing created. [Created] is taken can tern. Two-fold P ro p perly, or figuratively Properly, to bring things which arenor, citation. to being ; or it fignifieth tobring things which having a being , to a better being : thus the Pfalmifl prayeth, Create in me a clean heart, Pfal. 5 r . r o. but here it is not thus taken. But as in thecreation, fo in the regeneration, the Lord doth bringus from no being, in regard of grace, to live the life of grace, and therefore his creating force, as it is nothing furthered, fo cannot it be refittedby us; He calleth the things that are not, as ifthey were, Rom:4. t y. There is not anypower in us unto ehefe things. The natural/ man cannot conceive the thingsof God. None cancome to me, nnleffe the Father draw him. And therefore the Church faith, Camic.r.4. Drawme, and will follow thee. There ù no power, whether that which fheweth it felf, as not hindred; as fight now lookingon a thing; or that which though hindred, it felf is not hindred, as fight now lookingon a thing: or thatwhich though hin- dred, it doth not work, yet the power is fafe; as a man afleep, though his feules inward and outward ceafe towork, yet hebath power both ro reafon, to fee, and hear. Now there is no filch power for the life of God, which is thefoul of the fpirituall man , from which all faculty Mould flow , as the powers naturals do from the foul, this life of God is utterly extinguifhed : Nay there is throughout an ut- ter enmity crept in, fo that the underftanding counts as foolifhneffe the wildom of God; the will is enemy-like affected to the things of God. Man being able to adde nothing , yet he may chufewhether he ol;ea, will come. As abfurd; we are a workman/hip created of God: Nowunleffe we .ei for. make the creating power of God refiftible by the corrupt will of, man, which is exceeding abfurd ; we cannot think, that howfoever his will is in it fclfaffeéted,(for fo we yeeld it) we cannot think how he fhould havepower in effect to withfland. A a True
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