Chrifispeople awillingpeople. Modes in fuch manner as is convenient and proper to the qualityof its nature, to the right apprehenfion and vo- luntary profecutionoffpirituall things. The fame Spi- rit which by the word ofgrace doth fully convince the judgement, and let the light of the knowledge ofthe gloryof God thine upon the minder doth by the fame word of graceproportionably excite, and of ift the will to affea it, that as the underflanding is elevated to the fpirituall perception, fo the will likewile isenabled to the fpirituall love of heavenly things. By all which wee mayobferve that this workingof theSpirit ofgrace;whereby we become voluntaries in Chrifis fervice, and whereby he i.ojketh in us both to will and todoe thofe things which ofourfelveswe were not obedient unto, neither indeed could be, is both a fweet and powerfitil worke, as in the railingof a man from the dead(to which in the Scriptures the renewing of a limier is frequently compared) there is a worke of great power, which yet, beingadmirably futable to the integrity ofche creature,mufl needsbringan exaacorn- placencie and delight with it: we may frequently in ho- ly Scriptures obferve, that of the fame effeol feverall things may be affirmed by reafon of its connexion unto feverall caufes, and of the feverall caufalities or manners ofconcurrence with which thofe feverall caufes have contributed any influence unto it. As the obedience of Chriawas ofall other the moil free and voluntary fer- vice of his Father, if we confider it with refpeaunto his moll holy, and therefore moll undifira&ed, and unhin- dered will : (for if it were not voluntary,it were noobe- dience) and yet notwithfianding it was moll cettaine and infallible, if we Confider it with refpe& to the fanI aitie ofhis nature, to the unmeafinableneffeofhis uti- aion, to the plenitude of his unfeducible and unerring Spirit, to the myfieryof his hypoflaticall union,and the communication ofproperties between hisnatures,wher- Z 2 by
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