563 eIohn 6.;44 t t Cor.a.14. u Mat.9.24. x v en.6.5. 7 Gal 5r7 yzChr.3x.3i. 1,11,0 m.7.1 3. CRAP .5. 4a Expo fition ropey? tbefzrf2 V .r,a3. works in vs. Sufficient they eflcemed it for G o n, to command and Thew wha- is to be done; thatvouchlafed, it rifted in the power of mans Nature to doe what God prescribes. To metre Nature, they thought poflible duties fupernaturall : as to vs, in this fiate, feeme, Faith and Repentance. Contra, f No.man can come to mee, faith our Sauiour, except my Father which fent me dray' him. Chrifl chargeth on Nature, not vnwilling- nelTe onely,butimpotencie to belceue its him 3 Pahl not want oriel), ofknowledge,but tdifabilitie to k.now things of the Spirit of God. In a word. Is Nature Ilrong enough ? Why then pray Saints aid of Gods Grace? Pray they neceífarily of iflance of Grace? Nature then is infuffi cienr. There be that part flakes betwixt Grace and Nature ; Nature is weake, and ìnufl be afliilled: wounded, but nor to death. As Chrill of the Damofell, fo there of Nature, ' She í, not dead, bat fleepeth. Excite Nature, it workes with Grace, to the frfl Conuerfon ; perhaps without ir, to the increafe of Santlitie : yet Full, law the Lord in mans heart naturall,no propenfzon X face enely to (trill. Secoudly,?'aetlnorhing butt relasFlationagainß Grace,in men fanflifed. Thirdly. Leaue holici men rothemfelucs, as the Lord did Z Heziah, e3°c. What (hew they but prophanenethe and vanitie? Fourthly, And Paid not Pawl of himfeIfe now faalified, that a in hisß :Ji, that is, in that which remained Naturall in him, dwelt no goad thing? how then abilirie to cooperate withGrace? It is true, Wee are Operisgrrodammodofoci per confen- (um, adagi agimtt, ; but as inflrume.nts onely in vertue of the principali Agent. It is mans will that profecutes ; his mtnde that vnderflands the things c f the Spirit of God; but theprinciple mouing both, is fupernatur3115 the abilitie to moue to any thing pleating God, mecrely from his Grace. Paul,
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