The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

¹That there is gratia actualis, or actual grace, as well as habitualis, or habitual grace.² Learned Ferrius makes a vast difference between them; and therefore to think that there can be no power of sin removed ⟨p. 99⟩but by habitual or sanctifying grace, is unsound; for actual grace may do it, the Spirit may take away sin mediately by habitual grace, and yet it can do it immediately also by an omnipotent act, by that which is called actual actuating, or moving grace▪ Christ can and must first bind the strong man, and cast him out by this working or actual grace, before he dwells in the house of mans heart, by habitual and sanctifying grace. The Gardeners knife may immediately cut-off a cion from a tree, thereby taking away all its power to grow there any more, before it hath a power to bring forth any fruit, which is wrought only by implanting it into another stock: New creation (which is at first conversion) may well be without habitual graces that are but creatures.

¹That there is gratia actualis, or actuall grace, as well as habitualis, or habituall grace.² Learned Ferrius makes a vast difference between them; and therefore to think that there can be no power of sin removed ⟨p. 99⟩but by habituall or sanctifying grace, is unsound; for actuall grace may doe it, the Spirit may take away sinne mediately by habituall grace, and yet it can doe it immediately also by an omnipotent act, by that which is called actuall actuating, or moving grace▪ Christ can and must first bind the strong man, and cast him out by this working or actuall grace, before he dwells in the house of mans heart, by habituall and sanctifying grace. The Gardners knife may immediately cut-off a cyen from a tree, thereby taking away all its power to grow there any more, before it hath a power to bring forth any fruit, which is wrought only by implanting it into another stock: New creation (which is at first conversion) may well be without habituall graces that are but creatures.