A30242:698
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole…
The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgess ...The Scripture directory for church-officers and people, or, A practical commentary upon the whole third chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians to which is annexed The godly and the natural mans choice, upon Psal. 4, vers. 6, 7, 8 / by Anthony Burgesse ...
London: printed by Abraham Miller for T.U., 1659
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Fourthly, He must wholly and solely acknowledge grace. He must not give some piece to grace, and the rest to his own free-will: He must not by grace, mean the outward manifestation and revelation of it, but the inward efficacy of it. Pelagius was an Heretic, that denied grace, yet being often convinced by the Orthodox, at last he granted grace; and grace necessary for every good work: but all this while he called nature grace; or, the mere revelation of the Gospel. And so now, the Arminians and Papists, they do exceedingly (in a seeming appearance) acknowledge grace, but when it comes to a secret scanning, it's but a partial grace, not a total grace. It's a grace that requireth thy free-will, as well as thy free-will grace. It was well said of Bonaventure the Schoolman, That if a man must err, it's ⟨p. 123⟩better and safer erring in giving too much to grace, then too little. See then, thou detract not in the least measure from grace, but give it both totum and totaliter, all and the whole.
Fourthly, He must wholly and solely acknowledge grace. He must not give some piece to grace, and the rest to his own free-will: He must not by grace, mean the outward manifestation and revelation of it, but the inward efficacy of it. Pelagius was an Heretique, that denyed grace, yet being often convinced by the Orthodox, at last he granted grace; and grace necessary for every good work: but all this while he called nature grace; or, the meer revelation of the Gospel. And so now, the Arminians and Papists, they do exceedingly (in a seeming appearance) acknowledge grace, but when it comes to a secret scanning, it's but a partiall grace, not a totall grace. It's a grace that requireth thy free-will, as well as thy free-will grace. It was well said of Bonaventure the Schoolman, That if a man must erre, it's ⟨p. 123⟩better and safer erring in giving too much to grace, then too little. See then, thou detract not in the least measure from grace, but give it both totum and totaliter, all and the whole.