Israels prayer in time of trouble with Gods gracious answer thereunto, or, An explication…

In one word, God is the Author of All good, by his grace working it: the Permitter of all evil, by his patience enduring it: the Orderer and disposer of both, by his mercy rewarding the one, by his justice revenging the other, and by his wisdom directing both to the ends of his eternal glory.

In one word, God is the Author of All good, by his grace working it: the Permitter of all evill, by his patience enduring it: the Orderer and disposer of both, by his mercy rewarding the one, by his justice revenging the other, and by his wisedome directing both to the ends of his eternal glory.

This serveth to discover the free and ••le working of Grace in our first conversion,¹ and the continued working of grace in our further sanctification: whatsoever ⟨p. 44⟩is good in us habitually, as Grace inhering, or actually, as Grace working, is from him alone as the Author of it. For though it be certain, that when we will and do, our selves are agents, yet it is still under and from him, ^oCertum est nos facere cum faciamus, sed ille facit ut faciamus, as the great champion of Grace speaketh; by Grace we are that we are, we do what we do in Gods service: Vessels have no wine, bags have no money in them, but what the Merchant putteth in: the bowls of the Candlesticks had no oil but that which dropped from the Olive branches.

This serveth to discover the free and ••le working of Grace in our first conversion,¹ and the continued working of grace in our further sanctification: whatsoever ⟨p. 44⟩