3 32 Saving Grace fpecifically PCal. i 30 cagy in the caufes conflitutive of that difference ; fo there is a fßeciftcal difference between the things that place men in the one condition and in the other. Whatever there is of Good - nefs, Virtue, Duty, Grace in an Vnregenerate perfon, there is in him that is Regenerate fomcwhat of another kind that is not in the other at all. For the difference of thefe (fates themfelves it is plain in Scripture. The one is a (fate of Death, the other of Life ; the one of Darlenefs, the other of Light ; the one ofEn- mity again!' God, the other of Reconciliation with him. And that the one (fate is conf ituted by that of Grace which is of a peculiar kjnd, and which is not in the other. I (hall briefly declare. Saving i. The Grace of Regeneration proceedeth from an eiecial Grace fpe- niring and fountain, which emptieth much of its living waters dütinjft into it, no one drop whereof fills on them that are net Rcge- from corn- nerate. This is Elrûing Love ; it is given out in the purfuit of monGrace. the Decree ofElehion ; God bath chofen us that we fhould be holy, EpheC r. 4. Our Holinefr, whofe only fpring is our Re- generation, is an effeó of our Elecîion ; That which Go.J works in our fouls, in the purluit of his eternal purpofe of Love and good will towards us. So again, faith the Apo(fle, 2 `Ibef 2. 13, God hatbfrom the beginning chofenyou to falvation through the faneliftcationofthe Spirit. God having defigned us unto fat- vation as the End, hath allo appointed the fan6 !flcationof the Spirit to be the Means to bring us orderly unto the attainment of that End. But the belt ofcommon Grace or Gifts that may k in men Vnregenerate, arc but produts of the Providence of God, ordering all things in general unto his own Glory, and the good ofthem that (hall be heirs offalvation. They are not fruits of Electing Eternal Love, nor defigned means for the infallible attaining of Eternal Salvation. Secondly, The Graces of thofe that are Regenerate have a manifold Refpeec or Relation to the LordChritt that the com- mon Graces of others have not. I (hall name one or two of thefe Refpeth : Fir(f, Theyhavean efpecial moral Relation to the Mediatory Aas ofChri(fin his Oblation and Interceffion. Efpecial Grace is an cfpecial part of the purchafe of Chrifi by his
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