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A DISPLAY
of
(r.)
Our conversion
is
wrought by
a
divine
almighty
action, which
the
will
pf
man
will
not,
and
therefore
cannot
refill ;
the
impotency
thereof
ought not to
be oppofed
to this
omnipotent grace, which will certainly
effect
the
whole work, for which
it
is
ordained
-:
being
an
action not inferiour
to the groaners
of
his mighty power,
which
he
wrought
in
Christ robot
he
railed
him
from
the
dead,
Ephef.
i. 19, zo. and (hall
at that
power which could overcome hell, and
loofe
the
bonds
of death,
be effeftual
for
the
raiffng
of
a
firmer, from
the death of
fin,
when
by
God's intention
it
is
appointed unto
that
work
?
He
aecompl
fheth
the
work
of
faith
with
power, 2
Thel
i. i
1.
It
is
his
divine
power, that
gives
unto
as
dl
things
that
appertain to life
andgodlinefs,
2
Pet.
i. 3.
furely
a
.
moral
refifible
pert
afion
would not be thus often
termed
the
power
pf
God,
which
denoteth
anactual efficacy,
to which
no
creature
is
able
to
refs.
(z.)
That
which
eonfrfeth
in
a
real
efficiency, and is not at all,
but
when and where
it
actually
worketh, what it intendeth, cannot without
a
contradiction
be faid
to
be fo
refired that
it lhould notwork,
the
whole nature
thereofconfifing
in
fach
a
real opera-
tion. Nosy
that the
very
effence
of
divine
grace confifteth
in such
a
formal act, may be
preved
by all
thofe
places
of
fcripture,
that
affirm
God
by his
grace, or the
grace
of
God,
actually
to
accomplifh our
co
serlOo,
as
Deut.
xxx.
6.
And
the Loral thy God
mill
cireumc
fe
thy
heart, and
the
heart
a
thy
ed,
to
lave the
Lord
thyGod
with
all thy
heart,
and
all thy
foul that
thou mayeft live.
The
circumcifon
of
our hearts,
that
we may love
the
Lord with all our hearts, and with all our
fouls,
is
our
converson, which the Lord
affrmeth
here, that he himfelf
will
do:
not only
enable us
to
do
it,
bue
he himfelf
really
and effeftualiy
will accomplish
it. And again,
I
will put my
law
into
them,
and
write
it
in
their hearts,
Jerem. xxxi.
33 'will
put my
fear
in
their hearts, that
they
fhall
not depart
from me,
Chap. xxxii.
39.
he
will
not
offer his fear unto
them, but
actually
put it
into them, and moll clearly,
Ezek.
xxxvi.
26.
A
new
heart
alb
will
7
g:'ve
you,
a
new
fpirit
will
I
put
within
you,
and
caufe
you
to walk
in
my
ffatas
a.
Are there exprefions
of
a moral
perfuafioir
only? Doth God
affirm
here he
will
do, what he intends
only
to
perfuade
us
to,
and which
we
may
eefufe
to
do
if
we...1W
--Is
is
in
the power
of
á
stony
heart to
remove
it
Pelf?
What
an
altive
Gone
is
this
in
mounting upwards?
What doth
it
at
all differ
from
that heart of
flesh
that
Godpromifeth
?
Shall
a
foray
heart
be
raid
to
have
a
power
to
change
it
fell
into fach a heart
of
flesh,'
as shall cause us
to
walls in
God's
fatutes?
Surely,
unlefs men were wilfully
blind, they
mills needs
here
perceive
filch an action
of
God denoted,
as
effe$ually, folely,
and infallibly
worketh our
cower.
fide,
opening
our
hearts
that
we
may
attend
unto
the ward,
Acts xvii.
14. Granting
us
on
thé
behalfof
Christ to believe in him,
Phil. i. 29'i
now
there
and
the
like places prove, both
the
nature
of
God's
grace
to
confls in a real
efficiency, and
the
operation
thereof
to
be
certainly
effectual.
(3.)
Our
cöhberfion
is
a new
creation, a refurreElien;
a new
birth.
Now
he
that
e
e-
ateth
a
man,
dothnot
perfuade him
to
create himfel
,
neither
can he
if
he should,
nor
bath
he
any
power
to
refillhim
that
will
create him,
that
is, as we now
take
it, tranfare
him
from
fume
thing that
he
is,
to
what he
is
not.
What
arguments do
you
think
were
fufcieñt
to
perfuade a dead man
to
rife
?
Or what great
aid can he contribute to
his
own
refurrection? Neither doth
a man
beget himfelf,
a
new
real form
was
never yet
introduced into
any
matter byfubdearguments. Thefe are 'the
terms
the
fcripture
is
pleafed
to
use
concerning our conversion
If
any was,
be
ín
-Cln
f
he is
a
new
creature, z
Cor.
v.
tg.
The
new
man
after
God is created in rigbteoufnefs and holinefs,
Ephef
iv. 24.
it
is
our
new
birth,
Except
a
man
be
born
again,
he
cannot fee the kingdom
of
God,
John
iii. 3.
Of
his
two will
begat
be
us
with
the word
oftruth, Jam.
i.
18.
and fo
we become born again,
Not of
corruptible
feed,
but
of
incorruptible,
by
the
word
of
God which
hveth
and abideth
for
ever,
r
Pet. i.
z3_
it
is
our vivification and
refarrefion,
The
f
n
quickeneth'Thant
hé
will,
John
v.
xi.
even
thofe
dead
who
hear
his voice
and live,
verse z5.
When
me
were dead in fin,
we
were
quickned together
with
Chr
f
by
grace, Ephef.
ii.
5. For being burred'
with him
by
Paptifm,
roe
are alfe rifen with him through
.the
faith of
the operation
of
God, Color..
ü.
r
2.
and
belled,
and
holy
is
he
that hath-part in
that firs
refùrreftiou, on
filch
the
fecund
death bath
no
power, but
theylhall
be
priers
of
God
and
ofChrifi,
and
fhall reign
with
himathou-
fandyears.
T
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Oaf
ápiseinn
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