An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 25. And seeing God is still the same, and man's will the same in its natural faculties, and God seemeth to us to delight in Constancy, it is very improbably imagined, that God did for so short a time Rule Angels and Men by such a Grace, as he would never after make use of in the World; and that Man's free-will did for so short a time do its Duty by that Sufficient Grace, and never after do any one act by the like Grace, in any one to the World's end.

§. 26. It's true, that such Grace will not serve our turn to do that now in our lapsed state, which Adam could have done in Innocency (no, nor will all our effectual Grace yet reach it) that is, to have continued sinless: But it is incredible, that no common Grace of God now is as sufficient to the performance of the least good act (which is good but ⟨p. 164⟩secundum quid) as Adam's was to the fulfilling of all God's Law; and that the best unregenerate man is not able to do any better than he doth, or forbear some Evil that he doth, as well as Adam to have forborne all.

§. 26. It's true, that such Grace will not serve our turn to do that now in our lapsed state, which Adam could have done in Innocency (no, nor will all our effectual Grace yet reach it) that is, to have continued sinless: But it is incredible, that no common Grace of God now is as sufficient to the performance of the least good act (which is good but ⟨p. 164⟩secundum quid) as Adam's was to the fulfilling of all God's Law; and that the best unregenerate man is not able to do any better than he doth, or forbear some Evil that he doth, as well as Adam to have forborn all.