30. Passages deleted against Free-will, Resisting grace, &c.

IN Doctor Featlyes Clavis Mystica, page 604. Doctor Bray deleted these clauses: Postremum genus corum est, qui oves Christi pascunt, sed cibo insalubri, quo magis inficiuntur, quam reficiuntur Christi oves agnique; corum dico, qui floribus & fructi∣bus Paradisi aut noxias herb as admiscent, aut flores Adonidis aspergunt; cujusmodi sunt ist a dogmata, Vires liberi arbitrij ab Adami lapsu ad bonum spirituale fract as &Page  309debilitat as, non penitus profligat as & amissas, &c. And page 894. I told you before, that this was a wet step, and many have here slipt; for some odiously object, that un∣lesle we will grant universall grace, and a power in the will of man to resist and fru∣strate the work of the Spirit in our conversion, and that unlesse these Jewes had suf∣ficient grace offered them to repent them of their sinnes and thereby prevent this their finall overthrow, the prediction of our Saviour was to no end and purpose; nay, that his teares over Ierusalem might seem like to those which Iulius Caesar shed for Pom∣pey's death, who yet himselfe procured it, or might have hindred it if he would; did not Christ (say they) foresee and decree the destruction of Ierusalem? how then doth he bemoane it with teares? &c.

Master Ward part 2. page 4. Quest. 2. Why doe so few (if those many who are cal∣led unto the profession of Christ) persevere unto the end? Answ. Because the gift of perseverance is great, and but given to a few; I say great, because it is greater then the gift of free-will (August. Corrupt & grat. 13.) for first, this was given unto Adam at the first, but not that Adam in his framing being endued with freewill, which he lost by his fall but not with perseverance, for then he could not have fallen. Here there is in∣deed pride in Religion, when God must be content either to accept of will-worship, and a free-will offering, or else he shall have nothing, &c.