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The third Crimination.

C. They make Grace to be but a moral Operation or suasion, and seem to deny that physical operation which is eminently Grace: or at least take it to be but a physical use of moral means; And indeed I doubt whether some of them confess any other Grace than the Gospel and other means of Grace? And so the Spirit must work only on the Preacher, or on the sound of words, if he work not immediately and physically on the heart.^*

C. They make Grace to be but a moral Operation or swasion, and seem to deny that physical operation which is eminently Grace: or at least take it to be but a physical use of moral means; And indeed I doubt whether some of them confess any other Grace than the Gospel and other means of Grace? And so the Spirit must work only on the Preacher, or on the sound of words, if he work not immediately and physically on the heart.^*

1. *The untruth of this common Charge appeareth in the following citations. Vocatio ista tum externa est tum interna: externa per ministerium hominum verbum proponentium: Interna per operationem spiritus sancti illuminantis & cor afficientis ut attendatur iis quae dicuntur, fidesque verb• adhibeatur: ex utriusque concursu efficacitas vocationis existit. Ist a distributio non est generis in speci•s, sed totius in partes, hoc est totalis •ocationis in partials actions, &c. Armin Disput. Private. Thes. 42. Sect. 10, 11. Remonst. Synod. art. 3. 4. p. 15, &c. Si quaeratur ex nobis an Dei convertentis actio tantum moralis sit, suadendo, proponendo, inviando, Respondemus, Plusquam moralem esse, & si excitantem spectemus gratiam dicimus in ipsam voluntatem quoque potentiam supernaturalem insundi distinctam ab illuminatione: si vero co-operantem, dicimus cam physicam vocari posse, & realem ac propriam habere efficientiam.] Note here their plain profession of physical and infused Grace. [Si quaeratur an praeter mentis illustrationem & ffectuum excitationem, & voluntatis invitationem nihil faciat Gratia per modum principii vel antecedenter ad conversionem, Respondemus facere, Id. ibid.