A discourse of the saving grace of God

(1.) A Power to choose whatever good is offered. They will have it able of it self to embrace any good Object of what Nature soever; not only natural or moral but what is supernatural, of the highest Nature and Quality; and the embracing of it saving, such as will pass a man into a saving State. It has a Power to repent of sin, to believe in Christ, to turn to God, to love, fear and delight in him. ⟨p. 35⟩Not only a capacity, but an active Power for these, &c. Only these things must be propounded to it with some clearness and earnestness, as the Gospel propounds them to all under its Ministry. And that such a Proposal is required signifies no inability in the Will it self for these great things: for the most sufficient Faculty imaginable cannot act upon an object that it discovers not; and the Faculty of greatest Power may, in some cases, need exciting. And so it is requisite the will have Light to discover its Object, and some Arguments to commend it, at least when the Soul is under the disadvantage of rooted prejudices, or habitual and inveterate wickedness.

(1.) A Power to choose whatever good is offered. They will have it able of it self to imbrace any good Object of what Nature soever; not only natural or moral but what is supernatural, of the highest Nature and Quality; and the imbracing of it saving, such as will pass a man into a saving State. It has a Power to repent of sin, to believe in Christ, to turn to God, to love, fear and delight in him. ⟨p. 35⟩Not only a capacity, but an active Power for these, &c. Only these things must be propounded to it with some clearness and earnestness, as the Gospel propounds them to all under its Ministry. And that such a Proposal is required signifies no inability in the Will it self for these great things: for the most sufficient Faculty imaginable cannot act upon an object that it discovers not; and the Faculty of greatest Power may, in some cases, need exciting. And so it is requisite the will have Light to discover its Object, and some Arguments to commend it, at least when the Soul is under the disadvantage of rooted prejudices, or habitual and inveterate wickedness.