itt the CorJlitution ofthe Per[on of Chrift· 249 which is incompliant with his difpofitions, inclinations and defires,as inconf11lent with every thing wherein he placeth his intereil And hence as hecannot clo what he ihould through impotency, he will not clo even ~vi:at he can through_ O/;j}ina9'· . It may be \VC know not d1ih.nCl:ly ~hat to aicnbe unto · mans impotency, and what unto h1s 0~/lznacy. J3ut between both, he neither can nor will return unto God. And his Power unto good, though not Jufjicient to bring him .again unto God, yetis it notfofmall but that he alwa1es chufeth not to make ufe of it unto that End. In brief, there was left in - man a fear of Divine Power, a fear of God becaufe 'of his – Greatnefs, which makes him do many things which other– wife he would not do ; but there is not left in himanyLove unto Divine Goodnefs, without which he cannot chufe to re– turn unto God. · {' )· Butlet us leave thefe things which men: will · difpute a– bout,though in exprefs contradiction unto the Scripture& the experience of them that are wrought upon to believe ; and let us rm.1.ke an impo.ffiMe fuppojition, that mancouldand wquld re.. turn unto his primitive Obedience, yet no reparation of the Glory of God fuffering in the lors--o-of the; former fiate ofall things would thereon enfue. . What fatisfacl:ion would be ,.:_: · hereby made for the Injury offered unto the Holinefs, Righ– teoufnefs and Wifdom of God, whofe violation in their bleffed effects was the principal evil of fin ? NotwithfiandincT fuch a fuppofition, all the diforder that was brought into th~ Ruk and Government ..of God by fin, with the reflection of ~ difhonour upon him, in the re] eel:ion of his Image, would frill continue. And fuch ·a Rej}itution ofthings, wherein no provifion is made for the reparation of the Glory of God is not to be admitted. The notion of it may poffibly pl~afe men in their Apofiate condition, ·wherein they are wholly turned off from God, and into felf; not caring what bel\ kcomes
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