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Conlì!l:encyofeñe&uall
Grace
and Gofptal
Exhortations.
C.
XlC.ß:zt.
in
fecurity
loofeneJfe,
vile
praaices
:nor
have
they
yet
proved,
intr.
(I
believe) ever
will
prove,
but
that
they may
walke,
:
yea
and
that
many
have thus walked,
I
meane
infalloppofition
to
the
Paid
exhortations,to their
dying day. secondly,
If
God
by
his
spirit--
irre
/ijzihly draw
es
his
Saints
to
obey
the Exhortations
we
fpeake
of,
he
thus draweth them
,
either
by
fach
a
force or
power
immediatelyall-ed
upon
their
wills
by
which.
they
are made
willing
to
obey
th.ein;
or
elfe he
maheth
ufe
of
the
raid
E.xh.
ortations
fo
to
worke or.
8ffeït
their wills
that
-they
,become
willing
accordingly;
I
f
the former
be affected.
Then
firfl,:the
faid
Exhortations areno
.meaner wereby
the Perfeverance
of
the
Saints
is.
effelhd,
but God
alone
irrefìfli-
bly
by
his
Spirit;
for
if
the Will
be
thus.
immediately affected
by
God
after rich
a
manner and
wrought to
filch
a
bent
and inclination,
as
that
it
cannot but
obey
the
faid
Exhortations or
do
the things which the
faid
Exhortations
require,
Then
would
it
have
done the
fame
things whether
there
had
been any
fuch Exhortations
in
beeing
or
no,
and
confequenly thefe
Exhortations
could
-have no
manner
of
ef..
ciency
about
their
Perfeverance; For
the
Will
according
to
the
common
faying
is
ofit
felfe
a
blind faculty,
&
followes
its
owne
predominant
bent
&
inclination
without.
taking
knowledge
whether the
wayes
and anions
towards.
which
it
"lands
bent
be
commanded or
exhorted unto
by
God
or
no: 2.
if
the
will
of
a
St
be
imme-
diately
fo
afeaed
by
God
that
it
flands
incliild
&
bent'
to
do
the
things
which
are
proper to caufe them to Perfevere;
then
it
this
bent
&
inclination
wrought
in the
Will
of
fucb
a perfon,a
fter
his being a
St
&
confequently,is not
fentiall
to
him
as
a
St,
but
meerely
Accidentall,& Adventitious:
&
iffoithen
is there
no
inclination
or bent
in
the
Will
of
a
St as
fuck
or,
from his
firfi
being
a
St to
Perfevere, or
to
de
the
things
which
accompany
Perfeverance,
tint they come to
be
wrought
in him,
af-
terwards;
Which
how
confiflent
itis
with the
principles either
of
Reafon orReligion,
or
their
owne,I am content
that
my
Adverfaries
themfelves
fhouldjudge.
3.
if
God
doth immediately&
irrefiflibly
incline,or
move
the wills
of
the
Sts
to
do
the things
which
accompany
Perfeverance, the
fetid Exhortations
can
be
no meones
of
effe-
h
ing
this Perfeverance;
for
the
Will
being
Phyfically
irrefiflibly
ailed
&
.draWne
by
God, to
do
fuck
&
flick things,
needeth
no
addition
of
Morali
meaner,
(itch
as
Exhortations
are
(if
they
be
any) in
order hereunto;
What
a man is
nece
f
f
tated to,
he
needet/s'
no
farther
helpe
or meaner
to do
.it. 4. The
things
which
ac-
company
Perfeverance, import
a continuance
in
Faith
&
Love
to
the end;
If
then
the wills
ofthe
Stt
be
immediately
and
irref
libly
moved
by
God
thus
to
continue,I
meane,
in
Faith
&
Love
to
the
end, what
place
is there for
Exhortations
to come
in with their efciency).towards that
Perfeverance?
Need they
be
exhorted
to
con-
tinue
in
Faith
&
Love,or
to Perfevere
after the
end? Thus
then
we
clearely
%ee,that
the
firmer
ofthe
two Confequents
mentionedcannot
Hand;
God
cloth
not
by
his
spi-
rit
irreflflibly draw or
move
the
wills
of
the
St, to
do
things which are
neceffary
for
the
procuring
their
Perfeverance
immediately,
or
without
the
inllrumentall inter-
pofure
of
the
fbid
Exhortations.
Anf.
Firfl,
the intendment ofthis,
as
alto offome following
Sections, is
to
prove and
manifefF,
that
the
nie
ofExhortations cannot
confift
with
the
efficacy
of
Internal/
Grace,
and the worke
of
theSpirit
in
producing and
effe
-.
Being
thofe
Graces in us,
Which
in
thofe Exhortations.
we
are provoked and
furred
up unto.
A
very
fad undertaking,
truely,;
to
my apprehenlion,
Sc
for
w'h
theChurch ofGod.
will fcarce
ever retorne
thankes
to them that
(hall
ingage in it
He
was
of
an
other
minde, who cryed
Dá
Domine
gvod
jibes,
&
jubequodvis; yea, &
the
Holy Ghoff hath
in
innumerable.places
ofScripture
expreffhimfelfe
of
another mind,
promifing
to
worle
effeéluaily
in
ur,
what
be
requires
earneflly
ofus;
by the one manifeffing
the
efficacy
of
his
Grace, by
the other the
exigency
of
the Duty
which
is
incumbent
upon
us.
Nay
never.
any
Saint
of
God
once pray'd in his life,feeking
any
thing
at the hand
of God,
N
n
but
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