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Yfe
r
Dab.;
God
the
au-
thor
of
our
new
creation.
Whole
Trinity
ObjeEf.
Afts
a6.
ig.
Anfw.
ICor.
;.f.
7.
Yfe
T.
Dignity
of
Gods
children.
,Ephefians,
Chapan.
V
E
R.10.
True
it
is,
that
God doth
not
fo
convert,
as
to deftroy the liberty
of
will
;
but
thus he
faveth, not by
leaving this creating vertue
in
the
fway
of
mans pleafure,
but
by extending
it fo effe6tually,
that
it ma-
keth
a
man
of
unwilling, willing.
r.
Againft the Papifts
,
in
point
of
free-will , merit
of
con-
gruity, &c.
2.
To
let us fee
,
that
all
is
of
God
:
If
he
hath created,
then
we
were
as
a maffe
receiving
;
it
is
he
that
bath
made
us, and
not
we our
felves,
Pfal.roo.
He
is
the
Potter,
we
the clay.
His workmanfhip
in
Chrifl.]
Here
then mark,
Who
rc
the author (four
new
creation
;Even
God;
it
is
not the power
of
a
man, but the
crea-
ting force
of
the Almighty
is
put
forth
in
this bufineffe;it
is a
work of
the
infinite
power
of
God
:
The
Scriptures are plentiful)
to
prove it;
Job.
5.3.
We are begotten,
not
of
the luff
of
the flefh, nor the will of
man,
nor
of
blood;
but
of
god, through
the immortall feed.
James
r.
8.
of
hu
own
will
begot he
m,
by
the
word
of Truth.
r
Joh.3.9.
He
that
is
born
of
God
finneth
not.
This
is a
joynt work
of
the whole Trinity,
the
Fa-
ther, Son,
and
holy Ghoft.
Every
good
gift
cometh down
from
the Fa-
ther
of lights;
he
of
his own
good plea
fore
bath
begotten no,
James
5.17.
Of
Chrift,
you
fhall
hear afterwards:
One
Lord,
of
whom
are
a!1
things,
and
we
by
him.
Of
the Spirit,
Ynlefe
a
man
be
born
of
the Spirit
and
water,
Joh.3.6. And
there
is
no
power but
of
G
od, that
could
create
us
; for there muff be
a
power greater
and
ftronger then the
powers of
darkfieffe
:
there
muff
be
a
quickning vertue, which
can bring
life out
of
death,which
none
can
do
but
he
that
is
effentially life,
Again,if
the
creation
of
heaven and
earth
were
an
incommunicable
work,
how
much
more
this,
which
is
far
more glorious
But
the Minifters
of
the Gofpel are
faid
to
enlighten
the
eyes,
and
to
turn from darknefe
to
light,
from Satan
to
the
living
God.
We
do
without,
that which God doth
inwardly alone
:
we
fay
¡rife,
but
it
is
God that quickneth.
The
Word
of
it
felf,
is
but
a dead letter;
but when Gods fpirit goeth with
it
by
a
quickning
power, then
it
be-
cometh
an
immortali
feed in
the heart, to
conceive and
form the
new
creature.No
power or vertue,no not
theWord
or Sacraments
can
pro-
duce
fttch
a
bleffed effect,
except
God himfelf
put
to
his own
hand,
and imploy his own
infinite
power, they
can never
beget
in
a
man
a
new mmde and heart.
Who
is
Paul,
and
who is Ape/los
?
What
are
all
the
Minifters
in
the
world
available
to
make
a
Chriftian Alas,
they
are
but
men
like
our
felves
; Paul
may
plant,
and
Apollos
water,
but
it
is
God
that
giveth
the increafe.
That
your
faith
and
hope
(faith
Paul)
may
fland,not in
the
wifdom
of
man,but
in the
power
of Gad.
This letteth
us fee
the ineftimable dignity
of
the
Saints, that they
are
a
mofi
divine
generation,a
heavenlycompany: Even
in
this
regard
the world counteth
it
(and defervedly)a great thing to be
of
the
blood
Royal), or be nobly defcended. But
all this
new creature
in
thee,
cometh from the immortal)
feed
of
the
Word,
and
from
the'efficacie
of
God himfelf begetting thee. In which
refpe&t,
the
meaneft
of
Gods