Ibid. 48.5 Rom.3.19 Zach.a.13 Anfr. Rom. 11. 33. Cor. 2.9 Romlo. 14. The Fathersgreat Lave , that draws man to jefusChrift, that it may not be Paid that his Idol hath done it ; for otherwife the mouths ofall would not be flopped, and all .flcfh wouldnot become filent before him. Neither would it be Paid that the Saints rejoyce in nothing diebut in the Lord Jefas alone. Obj. But 1 know it will be obje&ed, though God doth thus, and he onely draws the foule to Jelus Chiiíl; yet this is not done without means, and infll'tlmellts. flnfw.Firft, truly 1 grant it is fo,but the wayes ofGod are tkehtnrfelfinfinite, and he is infinitly wife, and his wayes arepaft all the thoughts and imaginations of the hearts of men; for eye bath not Jeen, nor ear heard, nor is the heart of man ever able to finde out -the fecret wayes of the Lord. Secondly', God hath not onely determined a thing, but determined alto by what power, and infttrunrents, and means he will bring it to pa'l'e ; but in this it is otherwife with God thenwith man. Man may propofe a means to an end, that is weak and may faile; but God never intends andpurpofes an end, but the means is as infinite as himfelfe, and as eternal and omnipotent as himfelfe, fo that his naeanes cannot faile : he fpeaks and it 'hall andmug come to pai?.'Tis true God hath ordained the means by which he brings men to JefitsChrift ; but this means is his own power, and fpirit, and f rength. Obj. Eut thou wilt fay, Is itfelely by himfelfalone with- out an Organand !n1 runaent ? is there not fb'mething Jicb- ordinate ? Anfiv. Truly the workings of God have alwayes a ftb- jett wherein to be manifefled : as in man, there is the foule which is the Recipient and fubjeci in which the things oflife and death are a&ed; there is ufually an Organ : And how Jhould they hear without a Preacher? yet both the Organ and thePreacher are empty dead things;And if I or any man, in beingexercifed about the things of God, fhould look up- on our felves otherwife, quite laying by all thoughts of power, wifdom, ability, todo any thing, but to be only as a Pipe or. Ciflern, throughwhich thofedivine things paffe, and no
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