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Show , Tl•c spo11jr>. hath of it fclfno power lttW alf,tJio•u, a nrw ,.,J,,J/a,.dill,(; old tbill.~s mttjl pa[s array, aU tbingr muji hecomt' r.erv. It is a 1/fYV C1ea tion, cte.Jtrd to goodWorkf, !ait.l the Apotlk, Ephrf :.o. 10. The •ImJge of God i< crrated i>1 ngbteoufnrfs a>:dbol,»rfi, Ephef. 4· 2f- Poor wntm! Art rhott not ablt ro cn:.Ire!l A1e., or a gnar; and art thou able to create tbe glonozts Image of God in the S Mtll HJll"t hou not a power by all 1 hy tbtnking to adrJ CJte c~tblt to thy jlat11re, nor to mal<e fo much as one hair of thy head white or black? and hall thou indeed a power ro add righreoufnefs to thy will, and to tmke thy whole black Soul white? Cantl thotl not ch;mge thy skin? and canll thotJ indeed change thy heatt? cantl thou not command an impetuouspaflion, and can I\ thou pllt off all thy vile aff<:Clion') Again, The jl.ue of gr>re is fer out as a tlare life from th' dead. Thou theref.ore that thinkeH then hafl a power to b·lieve, to lov; God; fi1 fi go and ''Y what thy power c'an do, to make a dead body live, call tor the Soul paffed a way to return again into .rhe d, y bones and P"" tfied carcafs) affoon !bait thou prevail, as in commanding the lofl Image of God to retmn iMo tby putrefied Soul: Oh how vain men are in lheir imaJ;inarion~ ! - , 4- Add to this, If poor drad Souls bad a power in their own wills to move and to come to Clm{l ;· what mean all rho(e Scriptures which telltts, That it i< givm to zu on tb' behalf •fCbril to believe, Phil. J. 29. Th.lt we J>e fav<d thraugl: faith, ar.d that'"' of our felvn it i< the gift of God,. E.phef. 2. 8. rhar no ''""'conuth to the Son, bu; he ":hom the Fat/Hr draweth, John 6. 4+· How can yore brlirve who recnve honour one of another. John 5· 44· God gives to will and to do of his own ~ood pleajitre, Phil. 2. t 3· and abnndance of other Scri. pturc>. The tir/1 fpring of fpiritual />.1otion, is the fanClitied and renewed-Will. Now God giveth to mU, faith the Apoflle, what h•Jitf:ou that thou ho[lnot received .i' t Cor•4·7· Ry tbe grace of God I am that I am, 1 Cor. 1 5· to. They !hall be willing in the day of my pcwer, Pfalm 11 o. 4. !\ow what kjnd o{ power this is, is another que (lion betwixt the Arminiam Jnd us, viz. whether it be relijlible by us or no? but I am nor concerned in it in this place. It certaioly is more than a moral Sua [ion. lt is fttch a power as he uf~th in Creation. for we are created to good work,f: and the Image ofGodiscreatedin us (faith rhe ·Apofi1e, J fuch a power a; he ulerh in raiftng the dead; for he fairh, Awakt thou that f!reprfl and Jland up [rom the de"d, and Cbri[l {hall give thee light, Ephef. 5· 1 4· . to allio1u formaU; good. S· E.very cha.nge (in the fifth place) is a fortiori, it is made by fomethmg that ts flronger.But uke every man in the flare ofNa· t}•re, and fin and lnft is the flrongeH in him. I 01ewed you that by nature we have violent ihong inclinations to that which is e-vil: I would fain know how rhcfe flrong inclinations !bould ~e abated, or weakned, or mortified but by a flrongcr power, "hich is nor to be found in man: 1he flrong man k,repeth the bouje until Rom. 7· S· a (/ranger. tban he comrtb; and the rvill of mail not being nuda, na-ked and tndt fferent: how can he being naturally bent to evil, be Ltnbent, bllt by the mighty arm oft he Almighty God) 6: Sixthly, fr!•ns wiU nJturally moveth acrording to the d,qat• of.bu underfia~tdmg; he cannot love, defire, nor delight in any .tmn~ but what he feeth goodnefs and excellency in, he cannot hate, and abhor that which he feeth no evil in. A man by NJ· ture can neither fee any good or excellency in God or Chrill to ~hufe him, or delight in him, nor any evil in fin to abhor it. He IS darknefs, Epbej. 5· 8. he can no~ love Ged whom he hath not fee';; be cannot receive the thing! of the Spi;it, they are foolirhnefs !oh•m., r Cor. 2. 14- he-cannot know them. 7· Laflly, To !but up this Difcourfe, I appeal unto the Souls of all thofe before me who know any t)ling ofGod,·or have called any thtng ofhts Grace; have yo.u found it fo eafie to clofe with Chrifl? nay, examine- your fdve>, do you think you h~v.e it in your power by a firm and tleady affent fo much as to agree to the ~ trur_hs o( the Gofpel ? I kno\t you do not do it. The Object is lptrttoal, we are carnal, and cannot difcern it till God opens o'!r eyes. The ObJect to be embraced is fpiritual, we are car11al and (old under lin, and cannot embrace it until power be given us from above. Nor doth this grace conflantly attend the preaching of the Gofpel, that is but a found to the Ear; 'rhe heart mll£\ be touched by the f!nger ofGo~s Spirit, or it will never melt, never open, _nev~r t~cetve Jefus Chrifl, (whether fuppoling a tj'lap dorb .what ~n htm hes, G~d will not give this fpecial difl i•Jgui!bing !:'race,ts anorh.er queflion.) To make God a Debtor to a creature ~s _very _uncouth; who bath given fir!I to him i' It is enough tQ,fay It IS an tdle queflion, and that a Soul cannot be producccl who~ver dtd wh1t in him lay in the ufe of means to whom God was at I all wanting; bnt fii'll I fay Chrifl mull, otherwife fpcak than bare-ry "' ~u wo~a w;itwt or pr~ach'd to a Soul dead in trefpaffes and .fins before tt wtll, before tt can arife and·come to Chrifl : Thus .much for the fecond Conclulion. i..afily, |