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2. Actual Conversion comes into Being, as from the assistant and auxiliary Grace of God. When the Apostle gives account of himself as to the Principles of Grace, he saith, By the grace of God I am that I am; all his spiritual Essence was from free Grace: When he gives an account of himself as to the exercise of Grace, he saith, I laboured, yet not I, but the Grace of God which was ⟨p. 406⟩with me, 1 Cor. 15. 10. auxiliary Grace (which was with him) moved the Principles of Grace (which made up his spiritual Essence) into actual exercise. The new Creature can no more do ought of it self than the old: As natural Agents live and move in the God of Nature, so spiritual Agents live and move in the God of Grace. Wherefore, that there may be actual Conversion indeed, there is help from the holy One, a quickening virtue from God, Psal. 119. 37. a stirring up and fluttering over the nest of gracious Principles, Deut. 32. 11. a supply of the Spirit, Phil. 1. 19. and grace with our Spirit Philem. Ver. 25. nay, in a sober sense, Immanuel, God with us, [Greek or Hebrew] the Lord with us to incline our hearts to him, 1 Kings 8. 57, 58. God himself is as dew to Israel, and then the roots of Grace cast forth themselves, Hos. 14. 5. God blows and breathes upon his garden by auxiliary Grace, and then the spices thereof flow out in the actual exercise of Grace, Cant. 4. 16.

2. Actual Conversion comes into Being, as from the assistant and auxiliary Grace of God. When the Apostle gives account of himself as to the Principles of Grace, he saith, By the grace of God I am that I am; all his spiritual Essence was from free Grace: When he gives an account of himself as to the exercise of Grace, he saith, I laboured, yet not I, but the Grace of God which was