237 2SMAZWZONWSWOONWSMS CHAP. Y. Of the Efficient Caufe of Faith. §. 1. GOD the E cient Caufe of Faith. Hen I fay, That God is the Efficient Caule of Faith, do not fo underftand it,as if I thought all Adions, even the molt natural, did not proceed from God as the Efficient and firft Cade; for Ads XVii. 28. In him we live, and move, and have our Be- ing; but Faith is laid to be from God in a particular Manner, becaufe wrought in a fupernatural Way in the Soul, to which it bath no natural Difpofitions, whew the Lord the Author of all Motions, being the firft Ad, loth predeterminate the Will to natural Adions, as to fpeak, eat, fleep, or walk, he gives fuitable, debit, and congru- ous Influences to the Nature of Man, to the performing of which Actions Man is Thap,ed and fitted fò, as he may do them if he will, and in \whofe Will there is no Im- pediment rendring the Volition of filch an Aa Er
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