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The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved
The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved by sundry ministers, September 1661.
London: printed for Joshua Kirton and Nathaniel Webb, 1661
Sermon 2: What must, and can Persons do Towards their own CONVERSION?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Strictly for the infusion of grace into the heart and will of man, whereby he is regenerate, and his will made good, here man and his will being merely passive (for in this act voluntas nec est libera nec voluntaria) he can do nothing towards his own conversion in this sense.
1. Strictly for the infusion of grace into the heart and will of man, whereby he is regenerate, and his will made good, here man and his will being meerly passive (for in this act voluntas nec est libera nec voluntaria) he can do nothing towards his owne conversion in this sense.
2. It may be taken pro tota serie auxiliorum quibus ad eam movemur. For all helps and means which further us that way; and in this sense it's affirmed,
That men may do much towards their conversion, they may materially dispose themselves thereunto.
1. They may do as much as heathens have done, or would have done, had they lived under the same means, and had such motives, as they have. The Lord tells Ezek that if he had sent him to a people of a strange language; that was to the Gentiles, they would have hearkened unto him,