THE FIRST POSITION.
THe will of man being falne, is deprived of the supernaturall and saving graces with which it was endowed in the state of innocen∣cy, and therefore to the performing
The collegiat suffrage of the divines of Great Britaine, concerning the five articles controverted in the Low Countries VVhich suffrage was by them delivered in the synod of Dort, March 6. anno 1619. Being their vote or voice foregoing the joint and publique judgment of that Synod.
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"The collegiat suffrage of the divines of Great Britaine, concerning the five articles controverted in the Low Countries VVhich suffrage was by them delivered in the synod of Dort, March 6. anno 1619. Being their vote or voice foregoing the joint and publique judgment of that Synod." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A20668.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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of any spirituall actions it is able to doe nothing without the assistance of grace.
THat the will of man was endowed with excellent graces, it is hence mani∣fest, because man was made after the Image of God. But the jmage of God had the prime place in the cheife faculty of the soule, and what these graces were with which the will of man was beautified in the Creati∣on, it is evident out of those things, which are restored for the making whole againe of this Image, Ephes. 4.24. Put yee on that new man, which after God is created in righteousnesse and true holinesse. And that this righteousnesse, holiness and uprightnesse of our will was lost by the fall, it is cleare by this second receiving the same, being recovered by the grace of God in Christ. For wee are to put on anew, that which we put off in Adam, when hee was stript and left naked.
And that such a will as this of ours availes nothing to the performance of supernaturall actions, the Scripture cleerely witnesseth, Iohn
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15.5. Without me you can doe nothing. Rom. 5.6. When as yet wee were of no strength, &c. 2 Cor. 3.5. We are not sufficient of our selves to thinke any thing, as of our selves.
* 1.1Hence is that saying of St. Austin, What good can a wicked man doe except so farre forth as hee is freed from perdition. And againe, Our will is so farre said to be free, as it is freed.
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L••chirid. c. 30.