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Show HorP;, 4ppe.trelh that had the fame Souls and faculties in them! the fame wills; yet God .forcfa w I would ufe the liberty of my wtll bette_r t~an they would ufe the liberty of theirs. And as to the apphcauon of Redemption, the peer wretched worm !hould _gl~ry over ~is Maker thus: I chafe God ·firfi, my heart firfi tncltned to h~m; Man then (it feems ) hath made himfefft~ dif!"er, and ( pla~nly) hath whereof to glory before God. Bo1llmg tS not excluded by Armiman llw,but el1ablifhed.But this is clearly contrary to the whole !Copt of Scriptute, and the revealed defign o~ God, as to t~e Salvation of man from the firtl contri vement of 11 from Etermty u?til [t• petfcfr Confummation. But I have enl~rged far ~no~gh In the doctrinal put. I now come 10 the prachcal Apl'ltcau9n. This may ferve aright to ~nform your _Judgments m tl:e truths .,f God, both againll the Paptfis and ArmtHta»s. In the bufinefs of Election the mfelves are not agr<ed. The Rhemijlt t~ll us, That God elclierh none bHt with refprll to their wurk.f. Th1s Is the fan:e with the Armin ian Dollrine of Elcllion, from furefem work.f. The1r gteat CardiNal is of another mind; he grants that the people ?f God are elelled fruly, ~nte omntm opert<m pr£vijionem, Bqt m the bufinefs of Eff,frual-Calling they are better agreed among themfel ves : for though the Council of Trent honefily ~ttalhtmatiz; cth thofe who !hall fay, that a man can rtpeHt, btltt71e, hope, /ove,-&c. fo as the grace of_Jufiification !hould be bellowed u~011 him; yet i~ their very HtXI Catton they do equally anathe~attze thofe , Who dtHy that the free·r::iU •f m•." movrd, aNd exe~ted by God,.Joth co operate rl'ith God, coUmg, agrmng lo him c~Umg? fa M he may difpofe am:l pre part bimfe_lf for tht grace of Juftz{icotron; It that fay man cannot rtjijl if he ,.rU, butu af a tbmg wzthout lif,, and meerly po[Jive ; with much more i"n the fub~e~uent C~nons. So that it is manifefi, that by the help of the. Sp~u.t they mean only • a common and general Influence, no way mchn1_ng the Soul, but leaving it to ve.y near, if not full out, as much hberty as the Arminian1 plead for in the Will of man. Y~u ~ave. heard. that the" cafe is quite other wife; Our "Belove<! i~ hrfi tn h1s ~ottons: .He lirll chofe us, fiipulated for us: we were , firtl g1ven to htm, bought by him; ho firll worketh in us, he firll c~lleth, effectually calleth · he is firf! ourt before we are bi1: Indeed we fir!\ _kno':" "'e artJis before we can know he is our!. Jrut ou~ q_ueOion IS not which is firflftn•"'" to Ht, but which is r~•Uy firft tn It felf. Let tLis' help to etlablilh you in the tt,reat Dcctune of free·~:ac~his The DoOrine applied. 2. This notion ofT ruth informeth us, That whatfoever we ' ~re we are of Grace,_ F'_ree·Grace. Indeed gr.ce fuppofeth [rem;[1, It cannot be Grace tf lt be not free. A~tgrrflint of old obfervcd th~t we are not called va{a meritomm, Veffds of merit : bm va[l nrijmcordz.e, vefTds of Mercy. Elefrion is by the Apofile cal ltd Elell101t of Grace, Rom. I r. 1 4· We were chofen not becaufe we w:rc holy, or becaufe h~ faw we would be holy; but rhat we rntght be holy, _that he mtght fanctitie us and lit us for himfdf; Hechofe us (faith "!ttgufti?e ) according to hi• own good will, n?t for our go~d ':"!11, wh1ch could never have been good if he d1d nm f~bvenzre, firH work that it might be holy. He ( in Effectual Calhpg ) fmh unto us in our blood, live ; yea while we are in our _blood he faztb unto u1, live, Nay more rhan this This Nouon doth not only (peak all our imm(/ and hope in God, and relauon to <?od to be of Grac_e, and if ofGracr it mull be/ree, and no way mertted by us ; but !I alfo lets us fee that it was of th fe wo~k.! of. God .whe~ei.n he rl'or/i.rtb, and >tone can let him. This 0 is tha~ wh1ch our _DIVInes call, The irrefiflibility ofGrac1 ; a p oint whtch>the Arm•_,,. ,,. molt lliflr deny. They will grant us, that all; g~od wrought In us ts[rom Grace, (PelagiuJ himlelf would grant thiS; but he would underfiand no more than the free love of God in.giving us ~o good a ~ill, fo good.a Nature:) The Arminians ·wtll g~ant •.lntle. more tha_n this : But all they will grant to Grace tn th1s Pomt amounteth in the iff~e to no more than a · MORAL SUASION, that. is, That God of his Grace or free Lov~ hath not o~ly created ~ts reafonabl~ Creatures, and indu~d us w11h ~ free-wtll, that 1f we will; we may chufe the good as well · · as the ev1l : but alfo offurther grace grants us the preaching of the · Go[pel, where~y we are perfttaded.to imf[ace .JefuJ Chri(l, &c. but _yet they Wtll have a power left 1q inan tf he 'I' ill til refill all the calls of the Gofpel. l'o which purpofe they tell us of thofe Texts that tell us of peoples reji[liHg,' vexing, qmnthfng the SpiT it ofGod,All'7· 51. Efoy63.10, Ephef. 4-30· I'lhe[5. 19,&c •. Now we _fr_eely grant, T hat there an! (orne common operadons o\ t~e Sp1rtt of God, as to which he may be rejifted and vextd. ·And.fecondly, That even thofe who are regeneraled·and effedu • . ally call_ed, _may 9<!!_mch the k•~ 'spirit in Come of its motions, and may grzeve zt ~y their back·iltdtngs: But we fay, That in the Converfion of a S1~ner unto God, there is fiich a. power put forth by the holy Spzrzt of God; as that the creature is not able to reji(/;. Qqq which' |