Catholic Theology Plain Pure Peaceable, Conference 8 · Accusation 4
The fourth Crimination.
C.
I doubt they hold not Faith to be infuſed, but acquired: whereas Arminius profeſſeth Faith and Repentance Niſi Deo dante haberi non poſſe. Exam. Perk. pag. 57. and that both of them are denied to the Reprobates by the Decree of Reprobation. See his own words, At Deus ſtatuit D…ereto reprobationis reprobis fidem, & poenitentiam non dare, concedo lubens illam aſſumptionem, ſed recte intellectam. Twiſſe againſt Hord, p. 70. l. 1.Dr. Twiſſe ſheweth the difference to be ſo great, that an unjustified perſon may have an Acquired Faith about the ſame objects, when yet only an Infuſed Faith will juſtifie.
B.
1. Tell not me what you Doubt, but what you Prove, unleſs you mean no more, than to tell me of your injuſtice and uncharitableneſs: I find the Jeſuites and Lutherans commonly aſſerting an Infuſed Faith, and I have met with few Arminians if any that deny it; though the word be not ſo much in uſe with them.
2. But becauſe you that are the Accuſer are ſuppoſed to underſtand what you ſpeak againſt, I pray help me to underſtand it.
Queſt. 1. What mean you by Acquired Faith?
C.
That which we our ſelves get by our uſe of means and conſideration.
B.
Quest. 2. Is there any man in his wits that denieth Faith to be the effect of conſideration? Do you not think what and why you muſt believe, and even believe in and by Thinking or Conſidering. Do you believe, and not think what or why?
C.
No, but it is by Infuſion that we have thoſe thoughts.
B.
Infuſed Faith then is by Infuſed Thoughts: Be it ſo; but then it is not without Thoughts or Conſideration. But further;
Queſt. 3. Is there any Chriſtian that denieth that Faith cometh by hearing, and the uſe of the means which God hath appointed us? I pray you hear Dr. Twiſſe againſt Hord, pag. 169. [God in his Covenant of Grace requireth obedience to ſalvation; but of his Free Grace undertakes to regenerate them, and work them to obedience: But how? agreeable to their rational natures; that is, by admonition, inſtruction, exhortation; that is, to work Faith and Repentance by exhorting and perſwading them to repentance. All this he performs by his Miniſters.] Do you not believe that the Apoſtles were ſent to open mens eyes, and turn them from darkneſs to light, and from the power of Satan unto God,—Acts 26. 17, 18. And that Miniſters muſt The Schoolmen-men and even the Jeſuites ordinarily profeſs the neceſſity of infuſed Grace; yea many of them in a higher ſenſe than many Proteſtants dare own. Even Molina himſelf aſſerteth the ſupernaturarality of Grace thus, [Ut conſenſus liberi arbitrii Deo excitanti & vocanti per gratiam praevenientem nihil in re ſit qd. non ſupernaturale, & quod non ſimul a Deo ema…et, non ſolum tanquam ab allic…ente excitante, & invitante ad id arbitrinm▪ ſed etiam tanquam a co-operanee per auxilium gratiae. And he pronounceth Anathema on them that affirm [Conſenſum arbitrii noſtri Deo excitanti & vocanti per auxilium Gratiae praevenientis eſſe actum naturalem, aut poſſe elici ſine auxilio & co-operatione ejuſdem praevenientis Gratiae.] And the ſum of his opinion about the nature and cauſe of our holy actions is, 1. That Gods univerſal influx or cauſation is neceſſary on our will to make them acts. 2. That Free-Will is the cauſe that they are theſe particular acts about this object rather than another. 3. That Gods particular or ſpecial influx of Grace is the cauſe that they are ſupernatural acts. And that preventing Grace doth give men good thoughts, and the firſt motion of the affections, before deliberation, and choice or liberty (as Vaſquez alſo ſaith) which ſeemeth the ſame with the Doctrine of Ockam, Buridane, and the reſt of the Nominals, who call it Complacency, as antecedent to Election, yea and Intention. To be pleaſed with the thing ſimply on the firſt apprehenſion they call a neceſſary natural act. Though the Scotiſts ſay that quoad exercitium actus vel libertatem contradictionis even that is free.) And it ſeems the ſame which Auguſtine and Janſenius call primam aelectationem. But converting Grace it ſelf Molina takes to be a habit wrought by Gods ſpecial help in and with the word or means. His words are of men that are hearing Gods Word or thinking on it, [Influit Deu… in …eaſdem notitias in…lux… quodam particulari ac ſupernaturali quo cognitionem illam adjuvat, tum ut res melius & dilucidius expendatur, & pe…etret, …um…etiam ut notitia illa jam limites notitia ſupernaturalis, & ad finem ſupernaturalom in ſuo ordine attingat. Inde oritur in voluntate motus affectionis, &c. Yet no Jeſuite is ſuppoſed to go further from the Calviniſts than this man. In truth I cannot perceive but that Jeſuites, Arminians, Lutherans, and all ſuch are willing to aſcribe as much to Gods Grace, as they think conſiſtent with mans Free-will and Gods not being the cauſe of ſin: which is the ſame thing that the Calviniſts alſo endeavour, though…hey ſeem not to hit on the ſame names and notions to do the thing deſired.ſave themſelves, and thoſe that hear them, 1. Tim. 4. 16. And that he that converts a ſinner doth ſave a ſoul from death: James 6. ult. And that the word is the immortal incorruptible ſeed by which we are begotten again, and which remaineth in us: Are you now in doubt of this?
C.
It is one thing for God to work with the Word, and another thing to work by the Word: The firſt we confeſs; But if God work by the Word, then he muſt operate firſt on the Word, which is the Preachers act; and ſo by that Word on the ſoul, and not immediately: Therefore I rather think that the word is a concomitant than an inſtrumental cauſe.
B.
1. You wrong your ſelf and Chriſt in that you will not believe him, John 3. that we mortals know not the way and manner of the Spirits acceſſes and operations on the ſoul, any more than the cauſe of the wind whoſe ſound we hear. Do you not know, that you do not know how Gods Spirit moveth our intellect and wills, and how he maketh uſe of inſtruments; except ſecundum quid in ſome particles revealed.
2. An hundred Texts of Scripture (which I omit leſt I be tedious) tell us that the Word is a means or ſubordinate cauſe (to God) of his informing and reforming operations on mens ſouls. And it's dangerous to dream of any ſecond cauſe that is ſo concomitant as to be but co-ordinate with the firſt cauſe, and not ſubordinate to it. And the word is not only ſubordinate to God as Inſtituter by Legiſlation and Declaration, but alſo to God as efficient operator.
3. God can work two ways by the Word, which are within our reach (beſides others) 1. As it is the act of the ſpeaker, by exciting and illuminating him. 2. As it is the ſpecies (as they call it) received by the ſenſes and imagination, which God can by his power ſet home to the attainment of the due effect.
4. And yet I know not any, or many of your Adverſaries that deny that beſides this Divine operation by the VVord, God hath another immediately on the ſoul, exciting it to operate upon the VVord, as the vis plaſtica vitalis materna operatur in ſemen jam receptum. But I will here forbear to trouble you with the phyſical difficulties, whether the VVord heard be only objectum intellectus, or alſo cauſa efficiens (as light is both to the eye.) And whether it be operative on the intellect, or only terminative, with other ſuch like.
C.
Well I muſt grant you that all Infuſed Faith (as to the act) is Acquired: But all Acquired Faith not Infuſed: but infuſion is added to our own endeavours, like the creation of the humane ſoul.
B.
I am glad that we are got ſo far on towards peace. But Quest. 4. What mean you by Infuſion? Is it not a Metaphor?
C.
Yes, and we mean that immediate perſwaſion of God which you even confeſs to be beſides his operation by the Word, and by our Cogitations. Even a Creation of an act or habit.
B.
Quest. 5. Is it the name [Infuſion] or the thing that you plead for?
C.
The name (though I confeſs Metaphors muſt not be uſed unneceſſarily in Diſputes) is yet convenient: but that I leave indifferent.
B.
Queſt. 6. Do you not think that the act of Faith is the act of mans own Intellect, and Will, or Soul, and that immediately.
C.
Yes, that cannot be denied.
B.
If ſo, then when you ſay that our act is Infuſed, I hope you will confeſs the term to be none of the plaineſt; and you only mean that Gods Grace doth ſo operate on the faculty as to excite it ſo to act; and conſequently that the thing firſt and properly infuſed is not the act of Faith it ſelf, but the vis impreſſa facultatem, before deſcribed, by which the act is cauſed: And ſo in a ſecondary ſenſe the act may be called Infuſed, but not moſt immediately.
C.
I confeſs it is the habit which we commonly take to be Infuſed; and therefore we uſe to distinguiſh habitus infuſos ab habitibus acquiſitis, rather than actus infuſos ab actibus acquiſitis.
B.
Is that Habit before the Act or after it?
C.
You know that it is a Controverſie among our ſelves. Mr. Pemble ſaith it is before, and the common opinion is, that it is after the first ſpecial Act.
B.
1. I once received that from Mr. Pemble (ignorantly.) But that cometh to us by not diſtinguiſhing the vis impreſſa or firſt received influx of the ſpirit from a Habit: when as Ameſius well ſaith, it is fitter called ſemen fidei vel diſpoſitio quaedam, than a Habit of Faith. For 1. no man can prove ſuch an antecedent habit; and therefore none ſhould aſſert it. 2. The true nature of a Habit conſiſteth in a promptitude to perform that ſpecial act with facility. But that we ſhould have ſuch a promptitude and facility not only while we are Infant Chriſtians, but no Chriſtians; as having not yet believed in Chriſt, is not probable according to our commoneſt obſervation. 3. All other Habits follow the Acts, and therefore we have little reaſon to ſay it is otherwiſe here.
C.
Doth the Soul believe before it is inclined or diſpoſed to it?
B.
Inclination is a hard word, and belongeth both to Natural Inclination (ſuch as we have to Felicity) and to Habits, and to meer Diſpoſitions. And a pre-diſpoſition we grant: As when you ſpur your Horſe, you make him firſt the patient of your act, and by ſuſcitating his natural faculty, you diſpoſe him to a ſpeedy motion: though the ſimilitude doth not quadrare per omnia, becauſe Gods influx is on the whole Soul it ſelf. But this Diſpoſition to the preſent act, is far leſs than a proper Habit; or it's another thing.
C.
When I ſpur my Horſe, or whip my Dog, I do but ſtir up a former faculty, or ſlothful power: But God giveth a new life and power to them that were dead in ſin.
B.
Yet, I cannot take words for matter. 1. It's nothing but the natural faculty or power which you ſuſcitate in the beaſt: And hath not an unbeliever the Natural faculties or power? Is he not a man? Why do you not bury him, if he be not alive? 2. Death in ſin is relative, or real: The Relative is Reatus mortis, which denominateth men filios mortis, and is done away by pardon. The real is the Privation of a holy diſpoſition to the act of Faith and Repentance, &c. or of the Act it ſelf, or of the Habit. You can name no other. Now 1. the death which conſiſteth in the privation of the firſt diſpoſition to act (ſuppoſing all natural diſpoſitions) is taken away by the firſt influx or ſuſcitation of the Holy Ghoſt. 2. And by the ſame in ſecunda inſtanti is cauſed the Act, and the death gone that lay in its privation. 3. And (in the third inſtant, or afterward by degrees) is taken away the death which lieth in the privation of the Habit. And this giving the Habit, is called in Scripture and by Divines Sanctification as following Vocation, and it is wrought in us by degrees and not all at once, and that by the Spirits power, with and by our exerciſed Acts. In my youth I was ſo prematurely confident of the contrary, that the firſt Controverſie that ever I wrote on (was a Confutation of Biſhop Downam, Ameſius, Medall. de Vocat) Mr. Tho. Hooker, &c. in Defence of Pemble herein; but riper thoughts made me burn that Script.
C.
But the ſpur or rod putteth no new power at all into your Horſe; but Gods Spirit putteth a new Power into us.
B.
I have talkt long enough to you about Power before, and therefore would not turn back needleſly to ſay it over again. Gods Spirit putteth no ſuch thing into us, as we call a faculty or natural power: For that is the form or eſſence of the Soul; and our Species is not chang'd by Grace. But he giveth us that which is called a Moral Power, which conſiſteth conjunctly in the concurrence of means and objects, and the diſpoſition of our faculties to the act. Hear Dr. Twiſſe againſt Hord, pag. 12. lib. 2. He ſecretly maintaineth that every man hath ſuch a power by Grace, by which he may repent if he will: Concerning which Tenet of his, we nothing doubt but every man hath ſuch a power: but we ſay it is nature rather.
Page 18. Truly I ſee no cauſe to deny this, that even the wicked could do good if they would: We may ſafely ſay with Auſtin, Omnes poſſunt Deo credere & ab amore rerum temporalium ad Divina praecepta ſervanda ſe convertere, ſi velint. (Here is poſſe ſe convertere, id eſt, velte, ſi velit.)
But ſaith Twiſſe, pag. 170. l. 1. [But ſuch is the ſhameful iſſue of them that confound impotency moral with impotence natural, as if there were no difference] which he oft ſheweth is but the want of actual and diſpoſitive willingneſs. Now the rod or ſpur may cauſe both a preſent diſpoſition, and an act of will.
C.
But is this all the new Life and Spirit, and Divine Nature that is given us? Sure it is much more?
B.
No doubt but it is much more. But that Spirit, Life, and Nature is promiſed and given to Believers, and is promiſed on condition of our accepting Chriſt, in whom is our life: And therefore it is that habitual Grace which followeth the firſt act of Faith, and is a nobler diſpoſition to the following acts.
C.
Will one act of ours cauſe a Habit?
B.
Not as ours only: But when the Spirit will work▪ by it, it will. But even that Habit I told you is weak at firſt, and increaſed by degrees.
But proceed and tell me, Queſt. 7. Are you ſure that in the Acquiſition of Habits there is no immediate operation of God on the Soul that cauſeth them?
C.
We all hold an immediate Influx neceſſary to the Being and Action of every Creature, natural and free: but not an immediate Infuſion.
B.
What's the difference between Influx and Infuſion?
C.
The first is an univerſal operation, the other a particular.
B.
Do you mean that the difference of the acts or operations is at all ex parte agentis, ſen act us ut eſt agentis, antecedent to the effect, or only in the effect it ſelf.
C.
I dare not ſay that there is any difference in God, for it is againſt his ſimplicity; and his very will and act as in himſelf is his Eſſence, though vario…ſly related and denominated by cannotation: Therefore I muſt needs confeſs that the diverſity is only in the effect.
B.
Do you not ſee then what a deluſory and troubleſome ſtir men make for and about meer words? What's the Crimination come to then about Acquired and Infuſed Habits? when the difference is only in the effects? You confeſs that all proper Habits Infuſed are by our cogitation and uſe of means, and ſo are alſo acquired. And you confes that all Acquired Aabits are wrought beſides our cogitation and uſe of means by an immediate influx of God; ſo that as to the Cauſes you can name no difference: And yet the words Acquired and Infuſed ſignifie a difference in the Cauſes, and their operation, and not in the Effect, by their notation. Is not this deceit then?
C.
Tell me what you take to be the difference your ſelf?
B.
1. I ſuppoſe that ab uno omnia, God without diverſity cauſeth all diverſity, which is only in the Creatures, and not in him. 2. I ſuppoſe that God hath appointed natural means and ſecond cauſes for common natural effects; and his Will is, that they ſhall operate according to their aptitude: And that he hath appointed extraordinary means, even Chriſt, and ſupernatural Revelation, for the production of ſaving Faith: And it is his will that they ſhall work uſually according to their aptitude. 3. It is his command that we uſe theſe ſeveral means (natural and ſupernatural) accordingly. 4. As theſe means are ſpecial, extraordinary, and for a ſpecial end (the production of Faith and Holineſs.) So it is the will of God that they ſhall have anſwerable, noble, ſpecial effects; which effects beſides his operation on and by the means, the ſaid Volition of God it ſelf produceth immediately operating on the Soul; not as a meer volition alone, but as conjunct with his Wiſdom and Vital Power or Activity by which he operateth all in all.
I could here ſay that God doth concur with theſe ſupernatural means on his Elect, with a ſtronger, greater, ſpecial energy, force, or influx. But I am loth to deceive you with bare words: for this force, energy, or efflux is either God or ſomething created. God operateth by that Wiſdom, Will, and Power or Activity which are his Eſſence: therefore there are here no degrees in any operation: And in the effects the degrees are not denied. The ſum of all is then but this, natural effects are natural effects, and Faith is Faith: the difference we partly perceive; the means alſo are various▪ but in God the operator there is no diverſity. And ſo you may ſee what the ſtir about Infuſing and Acquiring is come to.
C.
I dare not deny this, becauſe it is agreed on by all Philoſophical Divines, and I ſhould be called a Blaſphemer, if I affirmed any real diverſity in God, at leaſt beſides the Trinity of Perſons, called by the School-men Real Relations, and by ſome real modes of being. But it ſurpaſſeth mans underſtanding to conceive, that the ſame cauſe no way differing, ex parte ſui, ſhould produce variety of effects. By which it ſeemeth, that when there was nothing but God, his love to Jacob and his hatred to Eſau, his decree to ſave and to damn, his will to make the world, and to deſtroy it, his fore-knowledge of good and evil, had no real difference at all. And is it not ſomewhat of a lye then in us, to call thoſe acts different, or by different names, which really have not the leaſt difference at all. (But of this before.)
B.
God were not God, if mans ſhallow wit could comprehend him. All this muſt be confeſt, unleſs you will be a Vorſtian: But if our conceptions be not falſe, our diverſity of names here is no lye; becauſe we intend but to denominate Gods knowledge and decrees or will, but by the relative connotation of the things known and willed. And though thoſe things were nothing before the Creation, and ſo the difference between Gods Decrees, &c. was really none at all, and the eſſe cognitum was nothing but Gods ſimple Eſſence: Yet as Greg. Armin. hath diſputed, there be ſome kind of Relations (which are nothing themſelves) and conſequently denominations which may be terminated on nothing (as praeteritu & futura are.) But if your underſtanding reſt not here, do as I do, reſt in a neceſſary and willing ignorance; and be but ſo wiſe as not to trouble the Church with that which you know not, nor imitate them that can ſhew the valour of their raging zeal, by Writing or Preaching againſt them as the enemies of the Grace of God, which dote not as confidently as themſelves.
C.
But what ſay you to Dr. Twiſſe's words againſt Hord, (l. 1. p. 156.) Albeit it be not in the power of nature to believe fide infuſa, yet is it in the power of nature to believe the Goſpel fide acquiſita which depends partly on a mans Education, and partly on Reaſons conſidering the credibility of the Christian way, by light of natural obſervations above all other ways in the world.
B.
1. *Pet. a S. Joſeph. Theſ. univerſ. de Grat. habit. p. 86. Datur aliquod donum Gratiae Divinitus infuſum quod poſt operationem in anima noſtra habitualiter permanet: Dari gratiam habitualem jam videtur eſſe de fide, poſt Concil. Tridenti…: antea tamen non erat habitus gratia ſanctificantis realiter a charitate diſtinguitur (which others deny) Gratia habitualis conſtituit hominem in ſtatu ſupernaturali, &c. The Reader that will peruſe Caſp. Peucer's Hiſt. Carcer. pag. 692, 693, &c. may ſee that the Luthorans were more for Infuſion and miraculous operations of Grace, and may ſee a handſom explication of Converſion, and the operation of the Word and Sacraments: and pag. 698. De viribus humanis in renaſcentibus & renatis dum fit converſio & deinceps ad ſinem. Credo quod gratuiti beneficii ac meriti Chriſti ſalvatoris applicatio & naturae mortuae vivifitatio in regeneratione non fit actione phyſica & br…ta aut raptu Enth…ſtaſtico, aut Stoica coactione, aut Magico aff…atu verbi, Sacramentorum & ſp. ſancti. Ne… mutatione Phyſica aut M…gica, hyperphyſica ſubſtanti…, temperamenti & viriu… ſeu facultatem h…minis ſentientis quidem, nec moventis ſe nec qui…quam agentis, ſed ſuſtinentis tantum impreſſionem, ut ſubjectum pations, ſicut ran… reviviſcunt a tepore ſolis, &c. By this you may ſee what this excellent man, Melan…hons Son-in-law ſuffered his ten years cruel impriſonment for, by the inſtigation of Schmidelinus and other Lutherans, to their perpetual ſhame; and who was then (as the Papiſts ſtill are) moſt for Phyſical infuſions ex op…re operato in Word and Sacraments.Not only he, but all the School-men diſtinguiſh acquired and infuſed Faith: But though the names ſound otherwiſe, the difference meant by them is in the effects only (and the means) and not in God. He meaneth that a ſlight ineffectual belief may be performed by that diſpoſition or moral power which is found before ſpecial Grace, as excited by good Education and helps: But an effectual ſaving Faith muſt be the product of a ſpecial impreſs of Gods Spirit on the Soul; which is a ſpecial diſpoſition and moral power to that act. And this is true: And no more can be truly meant or ſaid.
2. But I will tell you a myſtery added oft by Dr. Twiſſe, which may much moderate your judgment about the cauſe of mens condemnation, if it be true. He holdeth that no man is condemned for want of an infuſed Faith.
C.
How? why no man is condemned (at leaſt that hath the Goſpel) but for want of it: For if it be only an infuſed Faith that juſtifieth, then it is the want of an infuſed Faith by which men are unjustified: And if as you ſay, Infuſed and effectual or ſpecial Faith, be all one, ſure men are condemned for want of ſpecial effectual Faith.
B.
His words are theſe againſt Hord, l. 1. p. 156. [Neither have I ever read or heard it taught by any, that men ſhall be damned for not believing fide infuſa; which is as much as to ſay, becauſe God hath not regenerated them; but either becauſe they refuſed to believe, or elſe if they have embraced the Goſpel, for not living anſwerable thereunto; which alſo is in their power, quoad exteriorem vitae emendationem, though it be not in their power to regenerate their wills, and change their hearts, any more than it is to illuminate their minds: Yet I never read that any mans damnation was any whit the more increaſed for not performing theſe acts.] And again, page 170. [It is true there is a Faith infuſed by the Spirit of God in regeneration: But who ever ſaid that any man was damned becauſe he doth not believe with ſuch a Faith? As much as to ſay, that non-regeneration is the meritorious cauſe of damnation.
C.
I am amazed at this, eſpecially his ſuppoſing that no man ever ſaid that, which I thought no man of us had denied.
B.
I would think that his meaning is, that men are not condemned for want of Gods infuſing act, but their own believing act; or for the privation of Infuſion, but for the privation of Faith; or of Faith, not quatenus infuſed, but as they ought to have believed without infuſion. But he was not ſo wanting in accurateneſs, but that he knew how to have expreſt himſelf, had that been his meaning: And then I know not how his words will conſiſt with this ſenſe, [I never read that any mans damnation was the more increaſed for not performing theſe acts] where changing their own hearts is one. [And whoever ſaid that any man was damned becauſe he did not believe with ſuch a Faith.] Here it is the Faith as ſuch which is ſuppoſed ſpoken of; the privation whereof is not the meritorious cauſe of damnation. And indeed though the power of this Faith would have been in us, had there been no Sin or Saviour, yet there would have been no obligation to believe in Chriſt as Mediator: And therefore if the Law of Innocency had ſtood alone, even the want of an acquired Faith in Chriſt would have been no ſin.
But this is the unhappineſs of ſuch as muſt read Controverſial Writings: There is no end of ſearching after the Writers meaning. But the thing it ſelf I think is plain, &c. that only an effectual ſpecial Faith will ſave us: and it is ſuch a Faith of which Chriſt ſpeaketh, Mat. 16. 16. He that believeth and is baptized ſhall be ſaved, and he that believeth not ſhall be damned, (though he believe with any other Faith whatſoever, which he calleth acquired.)
Perhaps this his opinion hath ſome dependance on what he ſaith before (ibid.) He puniſheth the diſobedient with eternal death. True: but according to what Covenant? Not according to the Covenant of Grace: that is only a Covenant for Salvation: but according to the Covenant of the Law, the Covenant of Works.] Woful error and confuſion. The Covenant of the Law is almoſt as bad a phraſe, as [the Covenant of the Covenant.] 1. Gods Law of Innocency was a Law and Covenant in ſeveral reſpects. 2. So was the Jewiſh Law, which Paul meaneth by the Law of Works. 3. So is the Chriſtian Law of Chriſt, and of Grace. No man is now condemned by the Jewiſh Law of Works as ſuch, it being ceaſed; and never did it bind the Gentile world: The Law of Nature and of Innocency indeed condemneth the diſobedient; but the Law or Covenant of Chriſt or of Grace doth condemn them to much ſorer puniſhment, Luke 19. 27. Thoſe mine enemies that would not I ſhould reign, &c. Mark 16. 16. He that believeth not ſhall be damned, Heb. 10. 29. Mat. 25. throughout. But this confounding of the Covenants I muſt not here rectifie.
But yet I hope he meant only that men ſuffer not for want of Gods Regenerating, Infuſing Act, but for want of their own act of Faith.