Ver. 4. different from common Grace. - 33S 'ringing up to everlajfing life, John 4. 14. Full they receive thc water, the firing it felf that is the Holy Spirit ; and from thence living sa'aters do arife up in them ; they are wrought, effcded, produced by the Spirit, which is given unto there. Now al- though the common Gifts andGraces of men Unregenerate are effks of the power of the Holy Ghoft wrought in them, and bellowed on them, as are all other works of Gods Providence ;. yet it loth not work in them, as received by them, to dwell in them, and abide with them as aNever - failing fining of Spiritual life. For fo our Saviour (ayes exprefly, that thc World, or Vnbelievers do not know the Spirit, nor can receive him, or have him abiding in them. All which, in a contradiftindion unto all Unregenerate perfons, are affirmed ofall them that do be- lieve. Fifthly, The leafl of faving Grace, fuch as is peculiar unto them that are Regenerate, is Spirit, Joh. 3. 6. That which ie born, of theSpirit, ie Spirit. Whatever it is that isfo born, it is Spirit, it bath a Oiritual being, and it is not educible by any means out of the principles of Nature. So it is laid to be a new Creature, 2 Cor. 5. 17. Be it never fo little or fo great, however it may differ in degrees in one and in another, yet the nature of it is the fame in ail ; It it a newCreature. As the leaft Worm of the Earth in the order of the old Creation, is no lets a crea- ture than the Sun; yea or the mop} glorious Angel in Heaven :. So in the order of the new Creation, the leaft #ark, or dram of true grace that is from the fan tifying Spirit, is a newCreature, nolefs than the higheft Faith or Love that ever were in thc chiefetl ofthe Apottles. Now that which is Spirit, and that which is *sot Spirit ; that which hath a new f iritual being, and that which hath none, whatever appearance ofagreement there may beamong them, do yet differ#ecifically from one another. And thus it iswith the faving Grace that is in a Regenerate, and thofc common Graces that are in Others which are not fo. So that as thefe are divers States, fo they are eminently diferent and diftint the one from the other and this anfwers the fecond thinglaid. down in the Objecckions, taken from the Vncertainty oftbefe States, and of Regeneration it fell, and the real diffe- rence ofit from the contrary State, which is excliflveof an in, tacit in forgivenefs. Uu 3 Thirdly,
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