The Doctrine of the Saints' Perseverance

I Answer. Though such an operation of God upon the Will, as is here mentioned, be in respect of God, & of the manner of its proceeding from him Physical, yet in respect of the Nature and Substance of it, tis properly Moral, because it impresseth, and affecteth the Will upon which tis acted, after the manner of Moral causes, properly so called, that is, Perswadingly, not Ravishingly, or Necessitatingly. When a Minister of the Gospel in his preaching presseth or persuadeth men to such & such duties or actions, this act as it proceedeth from him, I mean as 'tis raised by his natural abilities of under standing or speaking, is Physical or Natural, but in respect of the substanceo• native tendency of it, 'tis clearly Moral, viz. because it tendeth to incline or move the wills of men, to such or such Elections, without ⟨p. 277⟩necessitating them thereunto; and so comports with those Arguments or Exhortations in their manner of efficiency by which he presseth or moveth them to such things; By the way, to prevent stumbling and quarrelling, it no way follows from the Premises, that a Minister in his preaching or persuading unto duty's should do as much as God himself doth in or towards the persuading of men hereunto, it only follows that the Minister doth cooperate with God, which the Apostle himself affirms in order to one & the same effect, (i.e.) that he operateth in one & the same kind of efficiency with God, Morally or perswadingly, not necessitating, for where one necessitates, & another only persuades they cannot be said to cooperate, or work the one with the other, no more than two, when the one runs & the other walks a soft pace, can be said to go or walk together. But when two persuade in one and the same action, one may persuade more effectually by many degrees than the other, may have a peculiar Act or method of persuading above the other.

I Answer. Though such an operation of God upon the Will, as is here mentioned, be in respect of God, & of the manner of its proceeding from him Physicall, yet in respect of the Nature and Substance of it, tis properly Morall, because it impresseth, and affecteth the Will upon which tis acted, after the manner of Morall causes, properly so called, that is, Perswadingly, not Ravishingly, or Necessitatingly. When a Minister of the Gospell in his preaching presseth or perswadeth men to such & such dutyes or actions, this act as it proceedeth from him, I meane as 'tis raised by his naturall abilityes of under standing or speaking, is Physicall or Naturall, but in respect of the substanceo native tendency of it, 'tis clearely Morall, viz. because it tendeth to incline or move the wills of men, to such or such Elections, without