2. To admonish us, throughout our whole life to seeke for such good things after that manner as is agreeable to their nature, that is, to ask, pray, and supplicate for them, &c. And in the second place to use all our endeavour to shew our selves thankfull unto God for such divine gifts. ♦Doctrine 4. _Hee gives these spirituall gifts unto us by his Divine Power:_ ♦ “Doctrine” omitted from original text. _His Divine Power hath given unto us all things_, as it is in the text: the like hereunto is that in the first Epistle, chapter 1. verse 5. _Ye are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation._ And Christ tels us, _Matthew 19.26._ _With men this is unpossible, but with God all things are possible_: where we are expresly taught, that salvation and spirituall good things are given unto us by the power of God, to whom all things are possible, that is, his omnipotency, _Ieremiah 31.35._ _Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the Sunne_, &c. _Reason._ Because such a power is necessarily required to bring this to passe, by reason of those strong impediments, which withstand and crosse this worke. For so Christ tels us, that the Devill _as a strong man holds his palace, till a stronger then he comes upon him and overcomes him, and takes from him all his armour wherein he trusted_, _Luke 11.21,22._ This is also fully explained by the Apostle, _Ephesians 4.8._ _When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men._ Where he shewes that gifts are given unto us by that very power, whereby captivity is led captive. It is expresly said _Ephesians 1.19._ _that it is the exceeding greatnesse of Gods power, which worketh in us by the might of his power_, and Verse 20. _the same power whereby Christ was raised from the dead_. _Vse_ 1. This may serve to refute the Remonstrants and such like men, that deny faith to be begotten in us, and our conversion to be wrought by Gods almighty power. For they make grace only morally perswading, that may be resisted, impotent, and consequently uneffectuall. 2. To comfort the weake and all the faithfull, in that they have no reason too much to feare the gates of hell, because they have the gates of heaven making with them: although they must wrestle not only against flesh and blood, but against principalities and the powers of the world, &c. _Ephesians 6.12._ Yet they have a divine power, farre beyond all those enemies, to uphold them in this wrestling. 3. To exhort us, 1. To behave our selves stoutly, and shew our selves men in the cause of God, answerable to so Divine a Power, as he is ready to afford unto us. 2. To give God thankes, that hath not left us in our owne infirmities to be exposed as a prey unto our enemies, but by his divine power helpes our infirmities. Doctrine 5. _This Divine Power is the power of Christ himselfe._ _Vse_ 1. This may serve to confirme our faith, touching Christs divine nature. For the divine power is not separated from the divine nature.