A discourse of the saving grace of God

Or if we take it for that which is Effectual to Salvation, it has no such Efficacy from it self or from God; it is only from the Will of man that it is effectual to Salvation, if ever it prove so. So that in their way, either there is no Grace at all that is saving, or none that is saving at a better rate than the Will of man can make it so, when it has no saving virtue of it self, or from God.

Or if we take it for that which is Effectual to Salvation, it has no such Efficacy from it self or from God; it is only from the Will of man that it is effectual to Salvation, if ever it prove so. So that in their way, either there is no Grace at all that is saving, or none that is saving at a better rate than the Will of man can make it so, when it has no saving vertue of it self, or from God.

There needs no other Arguments against this Doctrine, no Artifice to engage us against it, but a true and plain discovery of it. If we be saved by Grace, this Doctrine tends to lead us out of the way of Salvation.

There needs no other Arguments against this Doctrine, no Artifice to ingage us against it, but a true and plain discovery of it. If we be saved by Grace, this Doctrine tends to lead us out of the way of Salvation.

II. Let us see what they ascribe to Free-will. And that in general is a Power to be willing or unwilling, as to any Motion that is made, any Object that is offered ⟨p. 34⟩to it. It has a Power of it self, and by its own natural Constitution, either to choose or refuse, either to embrace or reject whatever Object is propounded, however it be propounded. The Will, they say, is never determined ad unum, never so set upon one thing good or bad, but that by rational inducement, i. e. by Motives and Arguments, it may be led to the contrary; and never so moved by such inducements, but that it may reject the motion. Never so set upon Sin, but that by swasive Proposals it may be moved to leave, not only the Acts, but the State of Sin: nor ever so moved by that, or any thing else, but that it may repel the motion, and quite stifle it.