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no hinderance
to
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work of
the
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276
efficacy
ofthe
Grace
of
God, and the
whole worke
ofit
, upon the
Soules
"Of
Men.
What
his
Fourth
Argument
allo
is,
but
a
Repetition
of
the
fame things be-
fore crudely Afrerted
in
other
termes
,
let them apprehend
that
can
;
If
God
works
Faith
and
Lgve,
in
the hearts
of
his Saints,
and
fapport them, in
them, to
the
end,
what
place
is left
for
Exhortations?
I
fay
their
own proper place ,
the
placeof
means;
of
meanes
appoynted by God
to
ftirre up
his
to
Perfeve-
rance,
and
which himfelfe makes by his
Spirit;
and the immediate
efficacy
thereof,
effe&uall
to
that
end
and
purppofe;
And I
know no
ufe
of
that
Que-
ry,
Are
exhortations efeí'luall
to perfwade
men to Perfevere
after
the end? being
built
only
on
his
falfe
Hfpothefis,
and begging
of
the thing
in
Queffion,
viz.
That if
God worke Faith and
Love,
and
continuance
of
them
in
our
hearts
effeerually
by
his
Grace,
there
is
no need, no
ufe
of
exhortations, though
God
fowork
them,
by, and with thole exhortations;
And
this
is his
firft
Attempt,
upon
the
firft
member
ofthe
Divifion made by him
felfe,
wherein what
fuc-
ceflè
he hath obtained
is
left
to
the judgement
of
the Reader;
And,
but
that$
(hall
not,
having
now the part
of
one
that
Anfwers
incumbent
on
mee,
turn
afide
untothe
proofe
of
things denied,
I
fhould eafilyconfirmewhat hath
been
given in, for
the removall
of
his Objeetions, from
the Teftimony
of
God,
by
innumerable
places
of
Scripture.
4.23.
He
proceeds then
Seet.6.
and
fares, Secondly,Neithercan
the latter
o
fthefaid
confequences
ftand,
God doth not make
ale
of
the
faid
Exhortations,
to influence or
effell
the
Wills
of
theSaints
upon
any
fuck termes,
as hereby to
make them
Infalli-
bly,
:Infruftrably,
Necef
tatingly willing
to
Perfevere,
or to
do
the things
upon
which Perfeverance dependeth.
For
firfl,
Zffo,
then
one
and
the
fame
all
of
the
Will
fhóuld
be
both
Phyficall
and
Morali, and
fo
be
fpecifically diflinguifhed
in, andfrom
it
fèlfe;
for
fo
farce
its
tis
produced
by
the irrefiflibleforce or
power
of
the
spirit
of
God,
it
mull
needs
be
Thy]?
call, the
faid
irrefiftible
working
of
the
Spirit,
being
a Phyficallaílion,
and
fo
not
proper to produce
a
Morall
eff
elf; Againe,
as
farce
as
the
faid
Exhortations
are
manes
to produce
or
raife
this
Act
of
the
Will,
or contribute
any
thing
to-
wards
it, it
mull
needs
bemoral!,
becaufe
Exhortations are Morall
cau/
es,
and
fo
not
capable
of
producing Phyficall,
Naturall,
or
Neceffary
effects;
Now
then
if
it
be
impoffible
that
one
and
the fame
Act
the Will
fhould
be
both Phyficall
and
Mo-
rail, that
is
Need
ary
not Neceffary,impoJble
a
fo
it
is,that it
fhould
be
produ-
ced
by
the irrefiftible working
of
God,
and
by
exhortations
of
this joynt
effìci-
ency.
It
may beObjected,
they
who
hold
or
grant
fuch
an
influence,
oroperation
of
the
Spirit
of
God, upon
the Will which is
fruflrable,or
ref
iible,
do,
or
mufffoppofe
it
to be a
Phyficall action,
as
well
as
that
which is
irref
ble;
If
fo,
then the act
of
the Will,
fofame
as
tis
raifed
by
the meaner
of
this
action,
or
operation
o
f
God.,
mutt according
to
the tenor
of
the
former
Arguments
be
Phyficall
alfo,
andfo
the
pretended
Impo
bility,
is
no more
avoided
by
this
opinionthen
by
t%e
other.
IAnfwer.
Though
fuch
an
operation
of
God
upon
the
Will,
as
is
here mentio-
ned,
be
in
refpect
ofGod,&
of
the manner
of
its
proceeding
from
him
Phyfieall,yet
in
refpect
of
the Nature
and
Sub
fiance
ofit,
tis
properly
Morall,
'becaufe
it
impref-
feth,
and-afecteth
the
Will
upon
which
Cis
act
ed,after
themanner
of
Morall
eau
-
fes,
property'
fo
called,
that
is,
Perfwadingly
,
not
Ravif
ingly
,
or Neceffîtatingly.
When
aMinifler
o
f
theGofpell
in
his preaching
prefab
orperfwadethmen to
fiicb&
fuch
dutyes
or
alfions,
this
all
as
it
proceedethfrom him,
I
mean
as
'tis
raifed
by
his
natural/
ability
es
of
underftanding
or
fpeaking,
is
Phyficall
or Naturali,
but
in
refpect
ofthefubllance
or
native
tendency
of
it,
'tis
clearely
Morall,
viz.
becaufe
it
tendeth to incline or move the wills
of
men,
to
fuch or
ftech Elections, without
necefftating