572 _. The ?whiles of ¡he Sprit, ofr+a''kingin SEC T. xie tellifethis, when he fpeak' of thofecorrupt inferences fome madefrom his peen. dying of grace : and theheft truths corrupted prove muffdangerous : as when they did nor ufe the Manna according toGods Ioftitucion, itdegenerated into noifome worms: 1. Let us d fcover the grounds of this truth : And Fait, 4/1:4°e pinto of Serip- tu>eWhichdoedtfcrsbethetotaß; and univerfallpe moon of man, making himnof fo much a frnnea,as even fin it klf; doch plainly argil, ,cnot Gods converting grace is all in all ; that man is a meet patient, and canner aftrvely content to the leatY good di ng. Thus Gen. 6. The imaginationof the thoughts of a mans heart are only evil, and that continually: Whatcon be faid more , Every imagina: ionor thought that ttirrethinaman, itsev,l, and only volt, and that continually ! How thencars this confenr,or bealtive toGod ? fo Ephef. a. Too bathbe quickned that were dead in fins : Wnat doth a dead man do toget life again ? who can bring a clean tieing out ofan unclean? Not one. That is, no man. God onlydoth :Our Saviour faith, A corrupt tree cannot bringforth roodfruit ; efpeciafly Rom.8. A nature?Haanper- ceiveb not the thingtof god ; Neither can h ; he doch nit, and he cannot. S:e what pregnant placesof Scripture here are ; Mark them, becaufe chat uofavorie error Both fo much fr read. If reifeTexts be true, all our thoughts and aff.t .ono ate onelyrvill; we are dead in fii wedo not, We CacnOt fonsuch as perceive the thingsof God : how then dare any thinkof thepower of nature, and her ability to what isholy? 2. Secondly, "Thi: is fully proved by :hare excellent andemphaticad fimilitvdetwhich are rfedendeclare the work,of Converfion; which the Spirit of Goionpurpoteu- feth to declare Gods glorious power in us. As its cal,ed often A Creo ion, and Grace is ("Shorn Creature : weare fold to be Created togoodworks, Now Creatio fit ex nihilo, Creation doth *Tote nothing pre-exlítent, either phyir,s',lyormo- rally. Was the world when it was created any wayes co- operant to its Crea.i- on? Neither is it here. Remember then its he that hash madeu., andnot weour f Ives : If we did not mckeour lelves men,fhal we makeour feïves near C: enotes, better then men ? fo its exprened by the frmilicude of a newBirth, H: bath begot- ten as by his word.A godly man is laid tobe bornof God. Nov th fe are full ex, pretlions to thew that we are not born by our free- will, or coif,nth out by Mods folepower ; as john t. Lally, its compared CO the Ref:rreaion; Tog bear were dead herb hrgaickned. Now was there ever any man that could ruile on ltim if out of the grave, and give life tohimfelf? yea ¡.'ph f. t. Ira comps, ed to tt, broom power of God in raying up Chrifl, the very kit lame power as .h, re laid to stork in thole that believe. Now how canany man anfwer chyle comparitons the Sc:;p- tortof th? for honfoevettimiltudes mull not be Ihrrch d beyond :hefcop: of ham that ufeth them yet the HolyGhoul doth for this end ufe ludo ear flit nn, that we tlrould attribute all to God, be debated toou f Ives, filing, Not unto is Lord, not tow free-will or our power, buy to eh, Name be oilglorie. 1hardly, tholeplace, prove /44, whichtakr all abdiy of good from mon; and attribute it wholly to God So our Saviour liken: ,h every man out of him ro a; Branch feparated from the Vine 7obn t s. 7 be Branch out of the Fine can lring forth nofrno Thus every man out of Chníl : Hence our Saviour ci,reludes, Without meye Condo nothing. He doth nor lay, You cannot do anygreat thing ;but nottvrg t And sgain, a Cor, ;. the Apedt!elatch -Wearenot f fficient of our feives to ,hir.kone ,b, u¿ht,viz. In reference to the good tither of o iLeen, or ofour Oyes. -Thus you tee rowman is madeutterly impotrat.Well, then fee the.feplaces that po-, firiv_yattueusealltoGod; let God that *or k.,o oo both tomil riod todo Yov fee arts given to arm: Ar d again, What h ft thou that thou haft notr.ceived? But above at', how Oath is chit Rom.9.ltt not ofhint that willeth, or him that ranorth ,,dot o goe'ibát;ß weth mercy. This is a noble place, for who is likely to have it, but him that wihleth, or that runneth? yet it is not of him, but of bun thatIheWeth mercy whereas Free-will,ot mats power_had-any co. partnetfbipinthisworrk, we
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