S E c 38 The Doarine andUfefulnef ofSigns. r. I. as in natural things bya phyfical motion thereis a reali tranfmutation, as ofcold to becomehot ; or inmoral things, as ofa fool tobecome wife. Let not there- . foreany dreamof holinefs in themfelves, unleffe therebe fuch a powerfull alte- rationfrom the [late offine. Hence it is compared to the RefurreEtion, and indeed Regeneration makes ho leffeglorious changeof the foul, then that Both ofthe body, as by the latter Our vile bodiesare made like hisglorious body ; fo out vile and corrupted fouls are become like his gracious and holy foul. Tully faid, in regard ofour fouls, which he thought a divine fparkfrom the glorious Effence ofGod, Scito toeffe Demo, Know thy lelf to be God : This was upon a danger- ous foundation but we may truly fay, becaufe of thofefupernatural even the image ofGod within thee, what God once did ironically, Beheld, mats is become like one ofxis. 2' Secondly, Inherent Gracebeing thus in toas afupernattsral permanent principle Inherent grace ofholy allions, itbath therefore as all other things have , fomething that is internal bath tome- and itutiveó it, and fomething that ùcon itntiveor flowing omit. That thing invernal of f g g andconfitn- which isconfkitutiveofgodlinefs, is thenature ófthe habits of graces with all tive of it, and their particulardifferences, asanimal rationale is thatwhich intrinfecally makes fomethingthat a man. z. There are properties which do flow and, iffue from thefe, and there isRowing from, are properly the marks and tgns, whereby wecome to know that grace in us : for as in Philofophy, Formanos latent, we do not know the forms or internal conflitutive differencesofthings , Fitrum lambimus , pnitetn non attingimus , as Scaliger faid, onlywe come to know thenatureof things by theirproperties and effefls; hence we have few definitions but many defcriptions of things from their properties and effe/, all ourknowledge being for the moltpart a poflerie- ri, rather thena priori, asa man that cannotfee the Sun it fell, becaufe of it's glorious luftre, can behold it in a bafon of water. Hence fomehave denied that we havea demonftrative knowledge ofthings, which is from the caufes to the effefts. To apply this to our purpofe, the inwardprinciplesand immediate na- ture ofgrace, is notevidenced unto us, but by the effefts and proper motions, even as in natural life there is no difcerningofit, but by the motions of life; henceby inherent graceweare faid to live, Gal. 2.19,2o. Rom. 1. 17. So that, as natural motions difcern natural life,thusdo fupernatural a fupernatural life; with this difference, that to this latter there is required alfo a peculiarillumination of Gods Spirit, Rom.B. 3, Thirdly, There aredifferencesabout theftgnsofGrace, even as Grace itfelfùdi- There are did flinQuiJbed. The Scripturecals thofefeveral gifts of extraordinary Office, Apo- ferences about fllefhip, Gc, aefeµaru,Graces ; fo thatall who havean immediate call fromGod the figns of to anyDuty, they have a grace from God ; now howfoever all extraordinary grace. ht ohn wrought to confirm their Doctrine l i h h h Pro ets ave not wroug t miracles , as Gift ofmi- P y g racles. no miracles, yet many times they were furnifhed with fuch a power; hence Chrift and his Apoftles by vertue derived from him, wrought divers miracles, infomuch as Gal. 3. this is made an argument of the pre,fence of Gods Spirit among them. o. Common 2. There arecommon Graces ofGods Spirit , and to this there are common offells gracesevidence and flgnsfufficient, fuchare,an hiftorical belief, avifible profeflion, anoutward an ssstw id acceptationof Ch rift andhis Laws, when there may be no inward change of the Call heart at all : for as God doth call many by anoutward call, whom he doth not inwardlycall; fo manydo outwardly accept of and profeffethe faith ofChrift, which do it not inwardly ; and by this means they have a vifible holinefs as op- pofite to the unconvertedworld, a Cor.7.14. There is holinefs andbelieving op- pofed to Heathenifmand Paganifm; hence Heb.r o.z9. that Apollate who never had true fanftifying grace, is yet faid to be(anti fledby the blondof C. {wilt. Hence altobecaufe of the outward Sacraments men are faid to be in Cirri and to have put an Chrifl {efes ; and upon this ground the Apoftle writeth to the Churches as a companyofSaints, regarding the term fromwhich they are called, viz. the world,
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