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The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…
The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By Edward Polhill of Burwash in Sussex Esquire
London : printed, and are to be sold by Thomas Shelmerdine, at the sign of the Rose-Tree in Little-Britain, 1695
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Let us compare them with the Remonstrants posse converter. They (because they would own somewhat more than mere moral Grace in Regeneration) tell us, potentiam credendi ante omnia conferri dicimus per irresistibilem gratiam. Now if ⟨p. 501⟩the posse converter be wrought in an insuperable way, why should not the Habits or Principles of Grace be so wrought, how is the Wills Liberty impeached by the one more than by the other? Which way can the Will resist the infusion of the one more than of the other? I know no difference between them as to these things: Wherefore (supposing what I have proved before, that there are such Habits of Grace) it follows that they are wrought in an insuperable way.
1. Let us compare them with the Remonstrants posse convertere. They (because they would own somewhat more than mere moral Grace in Regeneration) tell us, potentiam credendi ante omnia conferri dicimus per irresistibilem gratiam. Now if ⟨p. 501⟩the posse convertere be wrought in an insuperable way, why should not the Habits or Principles of Grace be so wrought, how is the Wills Liberty impeached by the one more than by the other? Which way can the Will resist the infusion of the one more than of the other? I know no difference between them as to these things: Wherefore (supposing what I have proved before, that there are such Habits of Grace) it follows that they are wrought in an insuperable way.
2. There is in Man's Soul an obediential Capacity to receive the Habits or Principles of Grace; there is a Capacity, and therefore God (who fills all things) can fill it; there is an obediential Capacity, and therefore God, when ever he fills it, fills it in an insuperable way: for this obediential Capacity is no other than that, whereby the Soul, as to the receiving of gracious Principles, stands in obedience to God's power, and as it stands in obedience to God's power, it cannot resist. To have an Obediential Capacity and not stand in obedience to God's power, is one Contradiction, and to stand in obedience to Gods power and yet to resist, is another: Wherefore the Soul receiving gracious Principles