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CHAP.3.3. t í! Costnnentarie vpon the 61z dance, we dente not fome libertieof will in the vnregenerate. S, Wee Vbinullavera denie not to fuch a will , freedome and libertie in fpirituall adlions, but religio,ibi Hotta in fuchas are altogether cull], untowhich as it.felfe is moff free, fo can.' rem irtu..Au , It Bud. determine it felfemoil freely. 6 And therefore.where the Apofile affirmeth it a meere feruant,'it mufr be meant of moral( good,fecundumgrntiam. Whencethe conclufion a- rifeth, That in fuch things as pertaine to God and true godlinefie, the unregenerate bath no power nor freedome of will at all,nonot fo much ob, as to will his owne conutrfion. Obiel. But the will of receiuing grace sot. muff needs goe before theadtion of receiving it. eAnfw, But this will as it is the beginning of connection , in the very fira moment and mo- tion of it is from grace, and nonecan will and delire grace truely but bygrace. This conclufion direflly fiendeth it felfe againfl that which is the maine of the Controuerfie betweene vs and the Church of Rome a- bout this point of free- will: which (not tobring downe fo far as from their matlerLombard, whowas Bishop ofParis about 400. yeares lince, and the fchoolemen after him,Yhomwr, Scotus, Bonaventure, Byel, d-c. ) we will gather out ofthe prefent doctrine ofthe Church of Rome, as it is auouched in the Councell ofTrent, the Romifh.Catechifine, andBel- !amine himfelfe; from whence I take out themaine difference betweene vs into thefe two potations. The former, that a man bath free-will left in his nature in things pertaining to faluation,,althoughnot without all grace. The curled Conuenricle curfeth thole that dase afirme free-will fencethefall tobe loft or extinil: and that they meane in fpirituali things, Couneel "£ the other Canons following thew. Bellármsne afftrmeth, that men vors- Tr:nt.ftrrs. can.,. generate, onely by the flrength of nature, . without the fpeciall aideof God, can fo performea morali good, that they finne not in it if they To.r.}.ls.capy be without the moleliation of íome more grieuoustemptation. The latter conclufion ofthe Romith Church is. ,that in the firtlmoment of conterfion, the will ofman concurreth and eooperateih with the grace ofGod, by a certaine kindofnaturali power, not wrought, but helped by she holy Ghofi. The Councill curfeth thofe that dente that free-wil co- operateth withGod, and that it difpofeth not it (elfe to obtaine the grace of iufi ficarion,or is meercly paflìue. Bellarmine in the tenth chap. of'the former booke afrmeth, that where the Scriptures call-vs cowork- ers with God,fo often-is the facaltieofour freewil affirmed in fuch works, and that not as it is wrought by the grace of God, but as it is in it felfe, and in it own nature. Such teÍlinronies out oftheir writers were infinite; but thefe as cleave enough fliali fuffice. We teach the cleave contrarie vpon good grounds, of which I- will giue Cone fcrf,5. cans.

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