Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

2. To excite and stir up in himself the Grace of Repentance, when God hath wrought it in him, for the putting forth Acts agreeable to the Principle he hath received, and to which by that Principle he is both empowered and inclined; unto the production of which Acts he is no more to question the concurrence of God's Special Grace, than his common concurrence to the ordinary actings of his Reason and Will; it being God's usual method to work with his Creatures according to their Natures; and those Principles of Acting he hath put into them. Though God quickens Grace as well as works it, yet Man is to use those means for the quickening it in himself, which God hath appointed, and with which he is wont to work.

2. To excite and stir up in himself the Grace of Repentance, when God hath wrought it in him, for the putting forth Acts agreeable to the Principle he hath received, and to which by that Principle he is both empowred and inclined; unto the production of which Acts he is no more to question the concurrence of God's Special Grace, than his common concurrence to the ordinary actings of his Reason and Will; it being God's usual method to work with his Creatures according to their Natures; and those Principles of Acting he hath put into them. Though God quickens Grace as well as works it, yet Man is to use those means for the quickning it in himself, which God hath appointed, and with which he is wont to work.

2. The reasons of this Concession, or which prove that a Death-bed Repentance may be sincere.

1. It appears by the the instance of this Thief, that a late Repentance, and as late as one upon a Dying Bed, hath been sincere, and therefore the like may be again: He did truly repent, and therefore it is possible others may. And that his Repentance was sincere, we have sufficient Proof, not only from Christs gracious acceptation of it, manifested