A discourse of the saving grace of God

Now what Honour is it to the Spirit of Christ, to ascribe to him a fruitless a worthless thing? They seem to honour the Spirit as much, who will borrow no light at all from him; but count the light of Reason, with the help of the written Word, sufficient: And what great difference is there betwixt them who ascribe ⟨p. 87⟩nothing at all to the Spirit, and those that ascribe to him that which is nothing worth? That which is fruitless and ineffectual, of no Virtue, of no Value, but but what it owes to Mans Will, may as well be ascribed to humane Reason, a• the divine Spirit.

Now what Honour is it to the Spiri• of Christ, to ascribe to him a fruitless a worthless thing? They seem to honour the Spirit as much, who will borrow no light at all from him; but count the light of Reason, with the help of the written Word, sufficient: And what great difference is there betwixt them who ascribe ⟨p. 87⟩nothing at all to the Spirit, and those that ascribe to him that which is nothing worth? That which is fruitless and ineffectual, of no Vertue, of no Value, but but what it owes to Mans Will, may as well be ascribed to humane Reason, a• the divine Spirit.

(17.) It tends to destroy the Mediation of Christ: That liberty, which they make essential to Mans Will, makes Christ uncapable of being the Mediator between God and Man, and so tends to ruin all the concerns of God and Man in Christs Mediation. For, either the Will of Christ was undeclinably fixed upon that which is Good and Holy, so that it could not to Disobedience and Wickedness: And if so, it had not that indifferency to good and evil, in which they place the liberty of Mans Will, and count it essential thereto, so that it cannot be a humane Will without it; and then Christ, wanting that which is essential to humane Nature, was not indeed a Man, nor did assume our Nature; consequently could not be the Mediator between God and Man, being not the Man Christ Jesus.