The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . lrated in the place cited in*? j\ tne * Margin, to which I refer my Reader for amplehlTin Satisfaaion ; And if tlle Soul be effentially free, it isthe*Idea flot ^m^ted *n t^ie Tr,anner and degree of itsApplica-0f fo tion to the Objects about which tis converfant, but* * has power to vary, proportion and divide it as itof ibT* P^ea^s > lt ma7 exceed or come Ihort of what theCreatio
The oeconomy of sin : wherein are explain'd, its possibility, its futurition, its nature, its event and effects, both in angels and in manAnd wherein also is demonstrated and maintain'd the truth of original sin . lrated in the place cited in*? j\ tne * Margin, to which I refer my Reader for amplehlTin Satisfaaion ; And if tlle Soul be effentially free, it isthe*Idea flot ^m^ted *n t^ie Tr,anner and degree of itsApplica-0f fo tion to the Objects about which tis converfant, but* * has power to vary, proportion and divide it as itof ibT* P^ea^s > lt ma7 exceed or come Ihort of what theCreation Order and Reafon of Things requires •, the prefentChap it Mode of its Subfiiknce in Man is derived from No-thing, Of Grace, and the Difpenfation of it. 11 thing, of which its Conduct may partake, and be Chap. of it, con&dered, as derived from God. CHAP. II. Jf Miln, the* naturally free and labile, mightnot have been Efiablifh^d and confirmed bythe Grace of God, fo as to be incapable actu-ally to fall. Of Grace y and the Difpenfationof it. U T it may be further askd ; L TWMight not the force of Liberty,^ D~EfTential unto God, have fo held™1* Liin, accompanyd, confirmed and *Jrt> and. Force ftrengthened the Liberty of Man,™JJ not as to preferve him from a Fall: I p)Anfwer, Yes, it had actually tetn Mans faitfo, had the Liberty of Man confented and refigned itr0^t^tt felf unto Gods Government and Direction •, but with- jns owncut this abfolute Refignation3 it was Impoflible: For ConfeneLiberty is an Abfolute Gift of God, given freely to and Cop-act and to direct itfelf, and by thfs noble way of act- fixationing, to become more acceptable unto God, and vao^EftabUjl>^worthy of his Love and Favour: And if Man perform rn&nt ofthe Condition required of him, viz. freely yield upL* Liberty to God *, then God accepts it *, not thatMan ceafes to be Free, but God Accompanies, andCo-operates with it, in a Friendly manner, conduct-ing it by his Counfel and
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