338 VERSE 3. Chriftspeople al:pillingpeople. power, in it felfefivpermatssrali, initstall, or Divine, and in its manner ofworkingfweetly tempered to the eli#4. tionofthe will, which is never by grace deflroyed, but perfe&ed. Therefore the Apoille faith, that it is godwbo worketh inau towilland to doe,Thil.a.i 3. firff, he fra- methour will according to his owne(asDavidwas laid to be a man after Gods owne heart,) and fecondly, by that will, and the imperate a&s thereof, thus fanetified and flill affified by theSpiritofgrace, he fetteth the o- ther powers ofnature on worke in furtherobedienceun- to his will. And therefore the Prophet David praifed God that had enabled him and. his people to offervoll- ling!, unto thvferviceofGodshoufe, and prayeth him that he would ever keepe that willing difpofition in the imaginations and thoughts ofthe hearts of his people, i Chron. a9.14. t 8. Therefore, the Apoille faith, that 0 faith lionsdeth net in the wifelome ofmen, kit in the powerofGod, i Cor.4.5. Therefore likewife it is called, Thefaith ofthe operation ofgodwho ragedChriff from thedead,Col.zaz. For the more diflinel opening and evidencing this point,howChrifls peoplearemadeWillinghy hiepower, I will onely lay together fome briefe pofitions which I conceive tobe thereunto pertinent, and proceed to that which is more plaine and profitable. Fief, let us con- fider the nature ofthe will, which is, to be a Free agent or moversto have ex fe,and within it felfean indlerencie and touieterminatneffeuntofeverall things; fo that when it moves or not moves,when it moves one wayor other, innone ofthefe it fuffers violence,but workcs according to the conditionof its owne nature. Secondly, we may note that this indifferencie is two- fOld,either habituall,belonging to the conflitutionofthe will, which is nothing elfe, but an originall aptitude, or intrinfecall non- repugnancie in the will, to move unto contrary extremes, to worke, or to fufpend its owne working;
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