00 compels not Mans Will. j f if leweroamemorawowatmonow. quifite that noneof Satans infiruments , and confede rates, fuch as the hearts ofnatural! menare, fhould be to firong for the graceofChrifi. But what then, doth Chrifi Compel' men againft their wills tobecome Ethic&unto him? No, inno wife. He bathordered to bring them in by a wayofvolunta- rineffe and obedience. Andherein is thewifedome ofhis power teen that his grace (hail mightily produce thofe effects in men, which their hearts {hall moll obediently and willingly confent unto ; that bee is able to ufe the proper and genuine motions of fecond caufs to the producing ofhis owne moil holy, wife, and merciful! purpoks. As wee fee humane wifedome can fo order, moderate, and Make ufe of naturall motions, 'that by themartificiall effeasfball be produced;as in a clock the naturall motion ofthe weight or plummet cauCeth the artificiall difiribution ofhoures, and minutes; and in a mill the natural! motion of the winde or water,caufeth an artificiall effe in grinding the come: How much more then (hall the wifedome ofAlmip,ihty God,whofe weakneffe is tironger, and whole foolifbneffe is wif-er than men, be able In to ufe, incline and order the veils of men,without defiroying either them or their liberty, as that thereby theKingdome of his Sonne (ball be let up amongfl them? fo that though there be (Ulanhabitual!, radical!, fundamental! indetermination and indifferencie unto feverall wages (unto none ofwhich there can bee a Compulfion ) yet by the jean, inefable, and moll Meet, operationof theSpirit ofgrace,opening the eyes, convincing the judgment, perfwading the affe6iions, enclining the heart, giving an underlianding, quick- ning and knocking the confcience,a man (hall be fwayed unto the Obedience ofCbrift, and fhall come unto him fo certainely as ifhe wereDrtswen2and yet fo freelyas if he were left unto hirnfelfe. For in the callingofmenby the word there is 3. Trabere,anda Venire. The Father draw- etb, VERSE I. nefcio quo moandicatur .p,ftraDets vos velimus: fienirn Deus miferetur edam volarnio; Ad eandern Tapp e miferi- earedampertinet ut velimks. . /Mg. Torn.4. AdSimplivand. Lib I. qu.z. Flgtonanipotens incordibu6 ha- mints:incairn motum 11 chanta_ tiseoriim, toper cos agat,q4od per es agere iple value& . Id: de Grat. & Art), 6%24. Cor 4.6. Eph. r .17,18. Aeta4.1 8. 11011.2..2.7. Io13.1 6.8. Gen.9.2.7. Ada6.14. ler.3F.18.33. 36.2,6,27. I 10h.5.20. PfaL119.34.36
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