CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

Further, If a man confess the power of God to help, Not absolutely to do that which is good, but to do it more easily and willingly, as Pelagius at last did yield. Here is Gods power acknowledged, but still here is not glory enough ascribed to God. God will have all the glory, or else none.

Further, If a man confess the power of God to help, Not absolutely to do that which is good, but to do it more easily and willingly, as Pelagius at last did yeeld. Here is Gods power acknowledged, but still here is not glory enough ascribed to God. God will have all the glory, or else none.

Lastly, If we acknowledge the help of God to keep us necessarily, yet if we make it a general indeterminate cause, and not efficacious, till by mans will it be ⟨p. 309⟩particularized. Here is something attributed to God, but yet still much ascribed to man; Therefore though the Jesuits have many large Tractates De auxiliis gratiae, yet because they do not make Grace efficacious in it self antecedently to our will, but our will to improve that; Therefore still we say, They advance not Grace, for it's not Grace, unless it be Gratuita omni modo. Thus then you see a necessity of informing your judgements in this Point, That no subtle Heretics under fair pretences, and acknowledgements of Grace, do deceive you: For Pelagius deceived the Eastern Bishops by this means, yea Sulpitius was seduced by the Pelagians, who had been a long enemy to them, which when he perceived, he was so grieved, that he enjoined himself perpetual silence, as the Centuriators observe.

Lastly, If we acknowledge the help of God to keep us necessarily, yet if we make it a general indeterminate cause, and not efficacious, till by mans will it be ⟨p. 309⟩particularized. Here is something attributed to God, but yet still much ascribed to man; Therefore though the Jesuites have many large Tractates De auxiliis gratiae, yet because they do not make Grace efficacious in it self antecedently to our will, but our will to improve that; Therefore still we say, They advance not Grace, for it's not Grace, unlesse it be Gratuita omni modo. Thus then you see a necessity of informing your judgements in this Point, That no subtill Hereticks under fair pretences, and acknowledgements of Grace, do deceive you: For Pelagius deceived the Eastern Bishops by this means, yea Sulpitius was seduced by the Pelagians, who had been a long enemy to them, which when he perceived, he was so grieved, that he enjoyned himself perpetual silence, as the Centuriators observe.