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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 ⟨p. 502⟩from God in its obediential Capacity, receives them in such a way as excludes resistance. Add hereunto, that if the infusion of gracious Principles can be hindered, then it must be hindered either by the habitual pravity of the Soul, or by the sinful Act of the Will; but neither of these can do it: not the habitual pravity of the Soul, for then it should hinder always and in all persons; for it is in all, and whilst it is there, it hinders, and whilst it hinders, it cannot be removed, because there is no other way of removing it but by those gracious Principles, and by consequence there should be no Capacity at all in the Soul to receive gracious Principles; nor yet can the sinful Act of the Will hinder it, for the Will doth not receive gracious Principles by its Act, and those which it doth not receive by its Act, it cannot refuse by its Act; but it receives them in its obediential Capacity, and therefore 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 ⟨p. 502⟩