136 / 808
épheans,Chap.>t,
V
E
x.
II,
dome,
that
judgeth
the higheft things.Let
us
deny 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
if
they would goe
nine waies
at once
:
Some
againe,
are
Co
felfecon
ceited,
that their
will muff Rand,
as
if
it were a
Law. O
it
is a
figne
of
fmall wifdome
to
be
fo
ftrong willed,
Prov.
r
a.
r4. He
that
heareth
coon-
f11 is
wife.It
is
good to looke before we leape,andto remember
that
two
eyes
fee
more then one.
Solomon,
the
wifeft
for
politicke wifedome,
bath
his fage
Counfellers, whofe
advife
while
Rehoboam
followed
not,
he did lofe ten parts
of
his
kingdome
:
It
is in
our
little perfonall
com-
mon-wealths,as
in
thofe wide ones;
where
Counfeli
falles all
goes to twine,
Prov.11.24.
Goan fell
of
his
will.]That
is
which
his 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
whatf
ever
he
willetb :
Who
bath
refilled
bis 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,!,
if
he will any
thing
;
he
doth worke
it effeEtually.
Theis
a
frivolous
'diftinetion
ofan
effeétuali. and an ineffeótuallwill in
God, which
ftand-
eth neither with truth
of
Scripture,
as in
this place
;
nor with
the
bief.
fedneffe
of
God
;
nor
with the nature
of
things
:
all
that
(hewed him
which
his will
accepteth;
he
doeth
effectually
worke it. Againft
blef-
fedneffe
of
God ; for
might God will
a
thing and not have
it,
he were
not
fully biefl'ed,
when
to
have every
good will,
is
more bleffed then
to
want
it.
Againft nature
of
things, for
every thing which will and
ability
worketh
;
if
God almighty
have will
to
any
thing,
the thing
muff
needs foil,
.w.
Wherethere
is
full
power
to
worke any thing, applied
to
the
working
it,
the thing wrought
muff needs
follow.
Here
Tome
difinguifh
and
fay, that
in
things which
God
will doe,his
power doth worke them effe1ually
;
butthe
things
which God
would
have
on 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 God
did
promiife
to
worke
mightily thofe things
he
requireth from
us.
If
to havethe
conditional[
will be more happy then towant
it
,
then
God who
bath 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 condition
which
he
will
notworke,
and then
it
is
impoffible;
unleffe
the
creature can
doe
fomething good, which he will not
doe in
him
;
or
on
condition which
he
will
worke, and then
he
worker
h all he wil-
leth
;
or
on
fuch a
condition which he
feeth
the creature
cannot
per
forme,
not
himfelfe will
not make him performe
;
and this were
idle
land
frivolous.
The