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Confiflency
ofeffeauall
Grace
and
Gofpell
Exhortations.
C.
X
11.4
:i:.
But Mr
Goodwin
tells
you
That
if
GodWor(e
by
hisspirit
&
hisGrace
immedi'
275
ately
on
the wills
of
men,
to caufe
them
to
Perfevere,
then are
Exhortations
no
meanes
of
theirPerfeverance.
Why
fo I
pray
?
ft
feemes
we
muff
have no
internal/
effeelnall Grace
from
God, or no
outward Exhortations
of
the
Word;
But
he tells you it
muff
be
fo
becaufe,
If
the
will
be
Phytically
and
7rrefrftiblÿ
aned
and
drawne
by
God, to do
finch
andfuch things,
it
needeth
no
adition
o
f
Moral/ meaner,fueh
are Exhor..
testions
thereunto:
That
is,
ifthe
will
be
effe
&ually inclined
to
the
wayes
of
God,
by
his
Grace,
there
is
then no need
of
the Exhortations
of
the
Word.
But
yet
Firft,theSpirit
of
God though
he
have
an
immediate
efficacy
of
his
owne,by
Se
with thofe
Exhortations,yet
by
thofe Exhortations he alto
inclines
the
will;
&
as
he
workes
on the
will
asCorrupt
&impotent,by
his
Gracejo he
workes
on
the
will
as
the
willor
as
fuch
a
faculty
is
apt to
be wrought upon by a media-
tion
of the underftanding)
by Exhortations.
Secondly,
to
fay
Obedience would
have
been
produced
and
wrought
had
there
been no
Exhortations,
is
not required
of
us,
what
efficacy
foever we afcribe
to
Grace,unleffe we
alfo
deny Exhortations
to
be appointed
of
God, and
to be
ufed by the Spirit
of
God,
for the producing
of
that
Obedience. Neither
Thirdly, doth
God worke upon
the
will as
a
diftin&
faculty
alone.ofit
felfe
without fuiting
his
operations
to
the
other
faculties
ofthe
foule;
Nor,
is
Grace
to
be wrought
or
carryed on
in us,
meerely as we have Wills
but
as
we have Underffandings
alto, whereby
the Exhortations
he
is
pleafed
to
ufe,
may be conveyed
to the
will
and
affect
it
in
their kind;
in
a
word,
this
is
but
repeating what
was
Paid
before;
Iftheré
be
any effe&uall
Grace,
there
is
no
ufe
of
Exhortations;
If
exhortations be
the
meanes,ofcontinuing or increafe,
ingGrace,what need the
efficacy
of
Grace
or
immediate
a&ings
of
the
Spirit,
working
in
us to
will and
to do
of
Gods
good pleafure;
what
validity
there
is
in
thefe
inferences, will
be
eafily
difcerned; God worketh Grace
in
men,
as
men,
and
as
men
impotent
and
corrupted
by
lime;
As
men
he workes upon them by
meanes fuited
to
their Rationall
being, by
Precepts
and exhortations:
but
as
men
impotent
and
corrupt
by
finne,
they ftand
in need
of
his effe&uall
power,
to
worke
that
in-them, which he
requireth
of
them:
Of
the termeswherewith
his
arguing
in
this
cafe
is
clowded and darkened,enough hath been
remarked
already.
His fecond
Argument
to
this
purpofe,
viz.
That the
Inclination
of
the
will
Q.2a.
to
good, and
to
perfevere
in
a
Saint,
mull
be
after
his beingmade a Saints
is
as
weake and
no
leffe
Sophy.flicall
than the former;
That
inclination
is
radically
wrought
in
every Believer
at hisConverfion,theSpirit being
beffowed on
him,
which
{hall
abide with
him
for ever, and the
Seed
of
God
laid
in his
heart
that
fhall
remaine, and never
utterly
faile,
with an
habituall inclination
to
the
ex=
ercife
of
all
thofe
Graces wherein
their
perfevering
doth confit.
At
Bally
this
is
wrought
in
them according
to
the particular dutyes, and
a&ings
of
Grace;
that
are reqnired
of
them,
which
they are carryed
forth unto,
by the daily
influence
of
Life,
Power, and Grace,
which
they receive.from Chrifi
their
head, without whom they can do nothing.
Neither
is
the
third Exception
of
any
more validity, being only
a
Repetiti-
on of
what
was fpoken
before, rendred fomething more impedite, darke, and
intricate,
by
the termes
ofPhyficàlly, Irreftftibly,
and
Necef
ïtated,
which
how
farce, and wherein we
doe allow, hath
been
frequently declared.
The
fu
mine
of
what
is
fpokenamounts
to
this,
Gods
real/
worke
in
and
upon
the
Soule
by
his
Spirit, and
Grace,
isincontiflent
with the exhortatians
to
Obedience:
which we
have before
difproved,
and do
reject
it
as
an Affertion defiru&ive
to
all
the
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efficacy