Secondly, As Men may proceed far toward Christianity by the Power of Nature, so they may have common and ordinary Works of the Holy Ghost upon them, that may carry them out to a very great progress, they may be made saith the Apostle, partakers of the Holy Ghost. Heb. 6.4. and that is, of its common Gifts and Operations; it is the Spirit of God that enlightens their Understandings, that awakens their Consciences, that excites their Affections, it is the Spirit that works Conviction, that works Reformation; yea, and Sanctification, in wicked and unregenerate Men. For we have that expression concerning them: There is a twofold Sanctification, (1) Of the Flesh, consisting in the removal of all carnal and external filthiness, called by the Apostle an escaping of the pollutions of the World through lust, 2 Pet. 2.20. And that consists ⟨p. 68⟩in a separation from all those gross and vile Sins, wherein the flagitious and debauched World do wallow. (2) There is likewise a Sanctification of the Spirit consisting in a separation from a State of Nature to a State of Grace, the one is external by Reformation, the other is internal by Renovation; the former Sanctification a natural Man may be made partaker of by the Holy Ghost, so as to have his Life and Actions stand at a greater distance from, and a greater opposition to carnal gross Sins, which the World is generally defiled with, but this is no more than a common and ordinary Work of the Holy Ghost, they may account the blood, whereby they are sanctified an unholy thing: There is a far different force and energy, that the Holy Spirit puts forth, when it works Conversion, and when it works only outward Sanctification, in both it may work upon the heart, but in Conversion it works upon the heart so as to change it and renew it, but in the reformation of a natural Man, he works upon the heart indeed, but it is only to change and amend the life, the Spirit may persuade the one to change his heart, but then he changeth the heart of the other: He may persuade ⟨p. 69⟩the Will of the one to submit to Christ, but then he subdues the Will of the other, he persuades the one to become a Christian, but he makes the other a Christian. Now there is a very wide difference between these two ways of working, by the one he only excites Men to use somewhat of the Power they have, but by the other he gives them the Power they want;
Secondly, As Men may proceed far toward Christianity by the Power of Nature, so they may have common and ordinary Works of the Holy Ghost upon them, that may carry them out to a very great progress, they may be made saith the Apostle, partakers of the Holy Ghost. Heb. 6.4. and that is, of its common Gifts and Operations; it is the Spirit of God that inlightens their Understandings, that awakens their Consciences, that excites their Affections, it is the Spirit that works Conviction, that works Reformation; yea, and Sanctification, in wicked and unregenerate Men. For we have that expression concerning them: There is a twofold Sanctification, (1) Of the Flesh, consisting in the removal of all carnal and external filthiness, called by the Apostle an escaping of the pollutions of the World through lust, 2 Pet. 2.20. And that consists ⟨p. 68⟩in a separation from all those gross and vile Sins, wherein the flagitious and debauched World do wallow. (2) There is likewise a Sanctification of the Spirit consisting in a separation from a State of Nature to a State of Grace, the one is external by Reformation, the other is internal by Renovation; the former Sanctification a natural Man may be made partaker of by the Holy Ghost, so as to have his Life and Actions stand at a greater distance from, and a greater opposition to carnal gross Sins, which the World is generally desiled with, but this is no more than a common and ordinary Work of the Holy Ghost, they may account the blood, whereby they are sanctified an unholy thing: There is a far different force and energy, that the Holy Spirit puts forth, when it works Conversion, and when it works only outward Sanctification, in both it may work upon the heart, but in Conversion it works upon the heart so as to change it and renew it, but in the reformation of a natural Man, he works upon the heart indeed, but it is only to change and amend the life, the Spirit may perswade the one to change his heart, but then he changeth the heart of the other: He may perswade ⟨p. 69⟩the Will of the one to submit to Christ, but then he subdues the Will of the other, he perswades the one to become a Christian, but he makes the other a Christian. Now there is a very wide difference between these two ways of working, by the one he only excites Men to use somewhat of the Power they have, but by the other he gives them the Power they want;
