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Continency
of
Prom: ofPerf.&Exhortations to the ufe of
rrleanes.
C.X11
cious
working
of the
Spirit
of
God on us, mutt be excluded,
or
all we do,
is
good
for
nothing
Away
with
all
Fromifes, all Prayers,
yea
the
whole
Covenant
of
Grace, they
ferve
for no
other end,but to
keepe
us
from
doing
good,
Let
us
heare the Scripture fpeake a
little
in
this
caufo
Deut.
3o.
6.
The
Lord thy
God will circumcife
thy
heart
and
the
heart
of
thyfeed,
to Love
the
Lord
thyGod
with all
thy
heart and with all thyfoule,
that
than
waif]'
live.
Pere.
31.33. &
the
32.39.
This
fball
be
the
Covenant
that
I
will
make
with the
Houfe
of
Ifrael
af-
ter
thefe
days
faith
the
Lord,
I
willing
my
Law
in their inward parts and write
it
in their Hearts,
and will
be
their
God
and they
(hall
be mÿ
people; Chap.
32.39.
I
will
give
them
one
heart
and
one way
that
they may
f
are
me
for
ever,
for,
the
good
of
them,
and their
Children
after
them.
Ezek.3
6.26.
A
new
heart
alfo
will
t
give you,
and
a
new
Spirit will
¡put
withinyon,
and
I
will take
away
the
flony
heart out
of
your
flefia,
and
i
will
giveyou an heart
of
flea,
and
I
will put
my
spirit
within
you,
and
caufe
you
to
walke
in
my
flatutes
and
ye
'hail
keepe
my
Judgements
and
do
them; Ait.
1644
. God
ope
ned the
heart
of
Lydia,
that
'bee
attended
to
the
things
fpoken
of
Paul;
Phil.
i
29.
it
is
given
to you
in
the behalfe
ofchriff
not
only to
Believe
on
him but alto
to
fufer
for
his fake,.
and
Chap.2.
T3.
For
it
is
Godwhich
workethe
in
you both
to
will
and to
do
of
his
aware
good
pleafure;
as
alfo
Ephf
i.
I
g.
That ye
may know
what is the
exceeding
greatnefe
of
his
power to na
ward
who
Believe according to
the
working
of
his mighty powerwhich
he
wrought
in
Chrif
when
he
raifed
him from the dead.
and
2
Theff.
I.
i
i.
Ivë pray alwayes
for
you
that
our God would
fulfill allthe
good plea
f
isre"of
his
goodneffe
e the
worke
of
Faith
with
power; So
alto
in
2
Cor.
5.17.
If
any
man
be
in
chri
37
he
is
a
new
Creature:
for
Ephef.2.
4,5.
God
who
is
rich in
Mercy,
.
for
his
great
Love where-
with
he
Loved us, even when
we
were
dead
in
finales
bath quickned
us
together
with
Chri
fl;
Caufing us Chap:
4.24.
to
put
on
that
new
man which
after
God
is
Created in Righteoufnefe
and
true
.Holineffe;
with
the
like Affertions. John
3,3;
amen
i.18.
I
Pet
.1.2;John
5.21.
2
Cor.3.5.
etc:
What
may be
thought
of
thefe and
the
like exprefiìons
?
Do
they hold
aS,
out
any
r
e
all,effetuall,internall
Worke
of
the
Spirit and?Grace
of
God,di(tin&
from Moral]
perfwafìons,
or do they not?
If
they
do
how comes any
thing
fo
wrought
in us,& by us
to
beMorally
good
?Iftheydo
not
we
may bid farewell
unto
all
Renewing, Rogenerating,Affifling,
Effeetuall
Grace
of
God,
That
God
then
by
his
Spirit
and Gracecannot enable'
us
to
a&
Morally,
and according
to
a
Rule,
is
not yet proved;
V
Vhat
followes
?
Saith he
So
fgrre
as
Exhortatious are
means
to produce thefe
Atte,
they muff
¢:29;
be
Morall,
for
Morali
caufes
are not
capable
of
producing
Natural]
or
Phy
fscall
efet`:.
But
ifMr
Goodwin
think
that
in
this
Controverfy,
Phyficall
and
Neceffary
as applyed toeffe&s are
he
is
heavenly
wide.
Phyficall
denotes
only their being
Neceffary,
a
manner
of
being
as
to
Come
of
them
which
have
Phyfscally
a
beefing,
The
tearme
Natural]
is
ambiguous, and fometimes
ufed
in the one
fence, fometimes
in
the
other;
fometimes it denotes
that
which
rs
only,
fometimes
that
which
is in
fetch
a
kind; By
a Phyficall
effcét,
we
under-
Rand an
Effe&
with
refpe&
to
tis reell
exigency,
as
by
a Mora
i
effeEt;
an
effe&
in
refpe&
of
its Regularity.
And now,
why may
not
a
Moralicaufe
have
an
in-
fluence
in
its
ovine
kind,.tothe produ
&ion
of
a
Phyficall
effe&
?
T
meone
an
influence
fuited
to
its
owne
Nature
and
manner
of
operation
by
the
way
of
motive
and
perfwafon
?
What
would you
think
of
him
that
Mould
perfwade
you
to
lift
your hand above your head,
to
try
how high you
could
reach,
or
whether yourArme were not out
of
joynt?
Secondly,
It bath been
fufficiently
(hewed before,
that
with thefe
4.36
Exhortations,
which
worke
as appointed meones, Morally
God exerteth
an
effeetu
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