B. None which violate Gods established order, or diminish his universal Grace. But such as are superadded specially to some. As, 1. To Children of the same Parents, he giveth to divers a temperament of Body, as in one much more conduceth to thoughtfulness, tenderness, meekness, sobriety, chastity, zeal, honesty, &c. than in the other. He is a stranger to man that knoweth not this.
2. He sometime giveth them various Education: One is piously educated. Another is snatched away and made a Janizary. A third the Parents dying, leave to such as educate them viciously. And some the Parents apostatizing educate in Heresy or unpiety themselves.
3. He oft casteth their lot under different means for their Edification. One is set Apprentice to a Godly Master, and another to an ungodly one. One is cast under a Holy able Minister, and another under an ignorant Seducer: One is cast among Godly Companions, and another among lewd Seducers, idle, wanton, voluptuous, unclean, malignant, scornful, or other such tempting persons, as that a great deal more grace or help is necessary to their preservation.
4. One (for ought we see of equal commerit) is impelled or occasioned to go to Church, just when an apt Sermon is prepared for him: and another occasioned to be absent. A Minister or Friend is sent (as Philip to the Eunuch, though by ordinary means) to meet with one, and speak suitably to his case; and not to the other.
5. One falleth under some great affliction, which taketh him down, and awakeneth him to seriousness; and another swimmeth down the violent and dangerous stream of prosperity and constant health.
6. One seeth some notable Judgments on others, or some convincing Providences, or hath some strange deliverance himself; which another never hath.
⟨p. 193⟩7. One Nation or Kingdom of equal ill desert, hath the Gospel and powerful Preachers sent to them; while others are left as the most of the world without it; yea, as the poor Islanders, Laplanders, Brazilians, Soldanians, and Cannibals.
A thousand ways God hath to fulfil his Will which we know not of. But besides all these in point of Means, we see that under the same Means, or Sermon, or Family helps, there is not the same success: Not only because the unbelievers make the difference by sinning against sufficient universal Grace;
B. None which violate Gods established order, or diminish his universal Grace. But such as are superadded specially to some. As, 1. To Children of the same Parents, he giveth to divers a temperament of Body, as in one much more conduceth to thoughtfulness, tenderness, meekness, sobriety, chastity, zeal, honesty, &c. than in the other. He is a stranger to man that knoweth not this.
2. He sometime giveth them various Education: One is piously educated. Another is snatch'd away and made a Janizary. A third the Parents dying, leave to such as educate them vitiously. And some the Parents apostatizing educate in Heresie or unpiety themselves.
3. He oft casteth their lot under different means for their Edification. One is set Apprentice to a Godly Master, and another to an ungodly one. One is cast under a Holy able Minister, and another under an ignorant Seducer: One is cast among Godly Companions, and another among lewd Seducers, idle, wanton, voluptuous, unclean, malignant, scornful, or other such tempting persons, as that a great deal more grace or help is necessary to their preservation.
4. One (for ought we see of equal commerit) is impelled or occasioned to go to Church, just when an apt Sermon is prepared for him: and another occasioned to be absent. A Minister or Friend is sent (as Philip to the Eunuch, though by ordinary means) to meet with one, and speak suitably to his case; and not to the other.
5. One falleth under some great affliction, which taketh him down, and awakeneth him to seriousness; and another swimmeth down the violent and dangerous stream of prosperity and constant health.
6. One seeth some notable Judgments on others, or some convincing Providences, or hath some strange deliverance himself; which another never hath.
⟨p. 193⟩7. One Nation or Kingdom of equal ill desert, hath the Gospel and powerful Preachers sent to them; while others are left as the most of the world without it; yea, as the poor Islanders, Laplanders, Brasilians, Soldanians, and Canibals.
A thousand ways God hath to fulfil his Will which we know not of. But besides all these in point of Means, we see that under the same Means, or Sermon, or Family helps, there is not the same success: Not only because the unbelievers make the difference by sinning against sufficient universal Grace;
