An end of doctrinal controversies which have lately troubled the churches

§. 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?

§. 10. When we know so little of the secret Energies of natural Principles, nor how God produceth Animals in the Womb, nor how he causeth our Food to nourish us, nor how any of our Senses do their Office, nor how our Souls do use the Corporeal Spirits, &c. And when Christ hath told us, That the Wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound of it, but know not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; and so is he that is born of the Spirit, Joh. 3. 8. Should not this, with the experience and consciousness of our Ignorance, suffice to keep us from bitter Contendings about that which is certainly beyond our reach, and from presumptuous boldness with the unsearchable things of God?

§. 10. When we know so little of the secret Energies of natural Principles, nor how God produceth Animals in the Womb, nor how he causeth our Food to nourish us, nor how any of our Senses do their Office, nor how our Souls do use the Corporeal Spirits, &c. And when Christ hath told us, That the Wind bloweth where it listeth, and we hear the sound of it, but know not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth; and so is he that is born of the Spirit,