A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

First then, Clear it is, that whatever Power Men have either to naturals or to spirituals; yet they cannot act or exercise that Power, without exciting influence from God to quicken and rouse it; who will say, that a Man that sits hath not power to rise, and that a Man that stands hath not power to walk; and yet it is certain, he neither shall rise nor walk, unless God move and excite and rouse that power of his, and put it upon that work, for in him as we live, so we move and have our being: so then the power to use our power is from God's quickening, enlivening, and actuating of us.

First then, Clear it is, that whatever Power Men have either to naturals or to spirituals; yet they cannot act or exercise that Power, without exciting influence from God to quicken and rouze it; who will say, that a Man that sits hath not power to rise, and that a Man that stands hath not power to walk; and yet it is certain, he neither shall rise nor walk, unless God move and excite and rouze that power of his, and put it upon that work, for in him as we live, so we move and have our being: so then the power to use our power is from God's quickning, enlivening, and actuating of us.

Secondly, A Child of God, who is regenerated and born again, hath a power to do some thing that is not sin; because he hath a gracious Principle wrought within him, and he acts for a right end, even the Glory of God in the Salvation of his Soul; but yet this withal must be supposed, that he shall never so act without the special aid and assistance of God quickening and stirring up his Graces.

Secondly, A Child of God, who is regenerated and born again, hath a power to do some thing that is not sin; because he hath a gracious Principle wrought within him, and he acts for a right end, even the Glory of God in the Salvation of his Soul; but yet this withal must be supposed, that he shall never so act without the special aid and assistance of God quickning and stirring up his Graces.