190 necíauo fan. in the eafinefs of the new- creature. More- over, to give another inllance, work out your falvation with fear and trembling, for it it God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleafure, faith. the Apofile , Phil.2. 12, r 3 . what ftrange language is here? work, and yet God worketh all , and all of his meer pleafure ; how can thefe things be ? if God work all, there feems to be no place left for virtue or vice , rewards or punifh- ments, becaufe man can do nothing of him - felf. O what fweats have Learned brains been thrown into, whilefl they have labour- ed to tune free -grace and free -will into har- mony ? what craggy thorny Volumes of meer fpeculation have they put forth de concordia liberi arbitrii - grati e ? and after all is done, the believer underílands it beft of any man his Iife of faith is a plain pratical folution thereof, for he as and moves , but under the firfi Agent and Mover ; he works, but under . the Mailer- workman ; he is free, but under the free - making fpirit ; he fpreads his fails, and withal! looks up for the holy gales ; he labours and fows precious feed , and at the fame time waits for the fpiritual dews and fun -beams ; he hath graces in him, but layes all under that fpirit that created them , that that fpirit may touch upon his charity and draw out his foul in alms , and touch upon his devotion, and pour out his foul in prayer, and touch upon every grace , and make the fpices thereof flow out ; í1111 he waits
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