1I et(ouzraid): 367 ons, zá VI S.1ia`7w "v vwv, thine from thine. St.Paul upon his experience afcribes all to Grace ; I live, yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me : And I labour, yet not I, but the Grace of God . which wits with me. He acknowledges no I -mf, but afcribes all his Spiritual Being to Grace ;'By the Grace of God I am what I am,faith he. St. Cy- prian might find in himfelf what he fo excel- lently Paid, In nullo nobis gloriandum, quando noftrum nihil eft. St. Ambrofe fpeaking of Cain and Abel, faith; Cain, as his name is Poffrih- on, acquires and arrogates all to himf if ; but elbel who knew his own Vanity, and that he had nothing de fuo nifi mendacium & peccatum, referred all to God. The former he calls impro- bum dogma, the latter bonum dogma; the good opinion which the juft Abel: are of and expe - rience -in themfelves. And in the laft Chapter of that Book he faith, *uicquid fine -Jura cogi- taveris, hoc Dei munus eft, Dei infpiratio, gratia ; which I fuppofe was his own experi- ence. Bleffed Sr. Auftin that noble affertor of Free -grace (of whom Projper hid, Dum nulla f bi tribuit bona, fit Deus ills omnia ; Whileif he attributed no good to himfelfGod became alithing: to him,) could never have wrote fo magnifi- cently of Grace, had he not had great expe_ rience of it. In his Book De Peccatorum tit, he gives a caution, Ne putemus ti,ijfrum eJT quodDei;and add s;Q i error multum ejfReligioni pietatique contrarius; To attribute that to our felves which is Gods is an error much contrary to Religion and Piety: Chriflian f enf is againft ir. Profpur
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