An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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.

§. 9. And seeing that Recipitur ad modum recipientis, and the disposition of the Recipient hath so great a hand as common Experience telleth us in almost all the Changes in the World, (what wonderful variety of Effects doth the same Action of the Sun produce throughout the World, by the diversity of receptive dispositions)? Therefore no mortal man can say when the efficacy or success of Divine Grace is more to be ascribed to the Preparatory Disposition of the Recipient by a former act of Grace, and when more to the present moving Influx? nor what proportion these always bear as comparable. And what man dare say that he can search out the ways of God?

§. 9. And seeing that Recipitur ad modum recipientis, and the disposition of the Recipient hath so great a hand as common Experience telleth us in almost all the Changes in the World, (what wonderful variety of Effects doth the same Action of the Sun produce throughout the World, by the diversity of receptive dispositions)? Therefore no mortal man can say when the efficacy or success of Divine Grace is more to be ascribed to the Preparatory Disposition of the Recipient by a former act of Grace, and when more to the present moving Influx? nor what proportion these alwaies bear as comparable. And what man dare say that he can search out the waies of God?