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/ians,Chàp.i.
173
See
forthe
ft-
niihing ofthis
Doehine, that
i;c
mfrer11ar
s
the Mar
hi
Vr
1.
,Gódseff
étuall
working,and,z
Cor.4.
6. God who
brought light out
of
darkneffe,
is
faid
to
have
[hived
into our hearts,and
to
have enlightned
us
with the knowledge
of
Gods glory,
in
the
face
of
Chrift
:
For
the
creating
of
us
anew
in
Chrift;
is
a
greater worke, then giving
us
our
na.
turall being
in
t4dam,
and ergo,
may
not be
afcribed
to
any
poser
which
is
not almighty
:
Which
will yet bee
more apparent,
if
we con-
fider
what ftatewe
are
in
ofour
felves ,
when
hee
bringeth
us
to
be-
leeve
;
We
are dead,
Ephefians
z.
Now
to
raffle
from naturali death,
is
an
effect
proper to that power almighty. Secondly,
if
wee confider
what powers
doe
hold
us captive, even
thofe ftrong ones, whom
none
but the
ftrongeft can over
-
mailer
.
Thirdly, if,wee
confider
to
what
efface
God doth
lift
us
up
by beleeving, even
to
fuch an eftate,
as is
without comparifon, more excellentthen
that
we received
:
Now
to
bring
us
from death, under which
fo
mighty
ones
hold
us
captive,
to
filch a life
fo
unutterably glorious, mutt
needes be
the working
of
a
power almighty.
But
here three things
are
for
further underftanding
of
this
point,
to
be confidered.
Fir(t,
in
what ftandeth that
effeétuall
helpe,
by which we come unto God. Secondly,
in
what order
it
doth
make
us
come
to God, whether immediately, or by fome
preparation
going
i
before.
e
Thirdly,
whether it
leave
the
will
at
liberty,
actually
to
To
the
firft,
it is
plaine,
that the
effèc
tuall helpe which maketh
us
come
to God by
beleefe,
is
the
efficacie
of
Gods
almighty
power,
put
forth to
fuch
purpofe
:
For
fo
farre
as
God doth
intend
to worke,
fo
farre
he
putteth forth
his
omnipotent power
to
accomplifh
;
But
God doth
intend
to
make fome before
otherfome come unto him,
and,
ergo,
hee
doth ftretch
our
the
arme
of
his
power, to
effe
l
this
in
them. Nevertheleffe,
to
fpeake
more
fully;
though this be the
principali, it
is
not
the
foie calife
in
converfion
:
Wee
may
then
con-
fider
three
caufes.
Firft,
the
principali,
vii.
this power. Secondly,
the
inftrumenrall,
both
of
the word
founding
in
our cares, and the inward
illumination
and infpiration
wrought within
us,
by
which
as an
inter
-
nail
word, God
fpeaketh
in
the minde.
Thirdly,
a formali caufe,
a
free gracious
difpofition or
habit
of
faith,
by
which the will
is
inclined
agreeably
to the
difpofition
of
it, to come unto God
:
fo
that the more
full
anfwer
to
this
queftion,
viz.
what
is
all
that
effe6tuall
helpe
whereby I come
to
God,
is
this
:
It
is
a
mixt thing ftanding
partly
of
that almighty power
of
his,
put forth for my
good,
partly
of
that
word
outward and
inward,
by
and with
which
his
power
is
put
forth
;
partly
in
that
fpiritoffaith,
and
fupernaturall life,
which
his
almighty
power
through
his
word bringeth forth
in
my foule.
What
was
that
helpe
whereby
Chrift
made Lazarus able
to
come
to him, out
of
the
grave
of
naturali
death
e
The
principal was
Chrifts power almighty
;
the
inftrumenrall his
voyce;
the former
caufe
immediately helping
to,
it,
or working it,
was
the
fpirit
of
naturali life,
which the power
of
Chrift by
his
word,
reftored
to
this dead
corps,
which now
was
fallen. And thus you have
the
effeetuall helpe
or
grace, by which
wee,
3
come