The like mistake is in that Expression & Comparison, in which the Fautors of this Opinion do so much please themselves: Say they, The Eye hath sufficient power to see, but yet unless the Air be enlightened, and the Object presented unto it, it will never see or perceive it, not put forth this power effectually upon the Object. Answ. The mistake is merely in the manner of the Expression misunderstood: For Seeing implies Two things in it. 1 To act upon an Object when it is presented in a right distance, and through a fit mean. 2 To bring this Object in such a manner to the Eye. That the Eye is sufficient to do the first, and is also effectual that way; the Eye is not sufficient to the second, and therefore no wonder it doth not perform it. Thus it is in the spiritual work; Deut. 29. 4. Though they had seen many signs and wonders, yet nothing was sufficient to work upon them, and prevail with them effectually: And its added, because that unto that day God had not given them an […]: He had given them Wonders, provided Ordinances, crowned […] with Privileges, and these might happily […] and Condemn, being sufficient for that: but not to Convert, unless he had given them an heart. This is the odds our Saviour gives of the Sufficiency, and so the Efficacy of Gods Dispensations, Matt. 13. 11. 13. To them I speak in Parables, that-seeing they may see and not perceive; hearing they may hear, and not understand: But to you is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. He not only gives unto his Disciples a word, but a mind to know.
The like mistake is in that Expression & Comparison, in which the Fautors of this Opinion do so much please themselves: Say they, The Eye hath sufficient power to see, but yet unless the Air be enlightened, and the Object presented unto it, it will never see or perceive it, not put forth this power effectually upon the Object. Answ. The mistake is meerly in the manner of the Expression misunderstood: For Seeing implyes Two things in it. 1 To act upon an Object when it is presented in a right distance, and through a fit mean. 2 To bring this Object in such a manner to the Eye. That the Eye is sufficient to do the first, and is also effectual that way; the Eye is not sufficient to the second, and therefore no wonder it doth not perform it. Thus it is in the spiritual work; Deut. 29. 4. Though they had seen many signs and wonders, yet nothing was sufficient to work upon them, and prevail with them effectually: And its added, because that unto that day God had not given them an 〈…〉: He had given them Wonders, provided Ordinances, crowned 〈…〉 with Priviledges, and these might happily 〈…〉 and Condemn, being sufficient for that: but not to Convert, unless he had given them an heart. This is the ods our Savior gives of the Sufficiency, and so the Efficacy of Gods Dispensarions, Matt. 13. 11. 13. To them I speak in Parables, that-seeing they may see and not perceive; hearing they may hear, and not understand: But to you is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God. He not only gives unto his Disciples a word, but a mind to know.
