232 SIXTH SERMON and in confidence of the aid of God, for it is he that worketh in us both to will and to do, Phil. ii. 11 -13. when we covenant to turn unto God, we must withal pray unto him to turn us, Lam. v. 21. Jer. xxxi. God commands us to turn ourselves, and to make us a new heart and a new spirit, that we may live, Ezek. xviii. 30 -32. but withal, he telleth us that it is he who gives us one heart, and one way, and a new spirit, that we may walk in his statutes, Ezek. xi. 19, 20. Jer. xxxii. 39. He giveth us the power to make us able, the heart to make us willing, the art to walk, the proficiency to improve, the persever- ance to finish and perfect holiness. David cannot run in the way of God's commandments, till he en- large his heart, Psa. cxix. 32. nothing can find the way to heaven, but that which comes first from hea- ven, John iii. 13. we cannot give unto God any thing but of his own, Who am I," saith David, " and what is my people that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort ? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee," 1 Chron. xxix. 14. For the further understanding of this point, and of the sweet concord and concurrence between the will of man converted, and the. effectual grace of God con- verting, we shall set down these few propositions. I. That there is in man by nature a power or fa- culty which we call free will, whereunto belongeth such an indifferency and indeterminacy in the manner of working, that whether a man will a thing, or nill it, choose it, or turn from it, he Both in neither move contrary to his own natural principles of working. A stone moving downward, doth move naturally ; upward, contrary to its nature, and so violently. But which way soever the will moves, it moves according
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