Influences of the life of grace

1. Assert. This rotten principle of the School-men, that to the man in nature who does what he can, either by the strength of nature, or by the strength of some grace which is sufficient, universal, and common to all men, but yet determines not the will, but leaves it to its own indifferency to will or nill, God denies not saving grace for conversion, is not to be holden.

1. Because the places which speak of our natural inability prove the contrary.

Now if the natural man cannot know nor discern the ⟨p. 332⟩things of God,¹ but judges them foolishness 1 Cor. 2. 13, 14. If his wisdom be enmity against God, and is neither subject to the Law of God, neither indeed can be, Rom. 8. 7. If there be a necessity of the Spirit of revelation, that the eyes of the understanding being enlightened he may know what is the hope of his calling, and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the Saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, Eph. 1. 17, 18, 19, 20. And if as touching the will and the affections, he be wicked in all the frame and imaginations of the heart, Gen. 6. 5. Gen. 8, 21.