An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 7. But there is no question but God can work without means, and Intellectual Souls being so near to the first Cause, it is utterly uncertain to us, whether in Works of Grace God have not a double operation on the Soul, one by his appointed means, and another by immediate Influx^*; and if it be so, how these concur to one and the same effect, and also how God doth immediately move Souls, are all past Man's reach, and should be acknowledged above our Disputes.

§. 7. But there is no question but God can work without means, and Intellectual Souls being so near to the first Cause, it is utterly uncertain to us, whether in Works of Grace God have not a double operation on the Soul, one by his appointed means, and another by immediate Influx^*; and if it be so, how these concurr to one and the same effect, and also how God doth immediately move Souls, are all past Man's reach, and should be acknowledged above our Disputes.

1. *Though before I showed that this seemed not necessary to all acts of Man, & will not overthrow Durand.Though before I shewed that this seemed not necessary to all acts of Man, & will not overthrow Durand.

§. 8. II. God hath more inward operations on Man's Soul than one or two (whether with means or without) to bring us to Faith and Repentance: The mind must be enlightened, the dull faculties must be excited, especially Conscience and Will, and the Will must be touched with the gust of Divine Love to breed a holy Complacency in good, and many Impediments must be removed, some by outward acts of Providence, and some by inward Grace. And where Impediments are not removed, no doubt but there needeth more of the other Acts of Grace, to bring such a Soul to Faith and Repentance, than in one where there is less resistance.