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CHAP. YI. Doctrine of Grace. 155
the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh ; and in this
struggle, labouring and endangered, they ask for strength
through Christ s grace to fight and conquer. He, tried
and harassed by no such conflict, enjoyed in that place of
bliss internal peace. l
c The first man, therefore, had an assistance, which he
could desert if he willed, and in which he would abide if
he willed not ; one by which he was made to will. This is
the first grace which was given to the first Adam : but a
stronger than this is given in the second Adam. For the
first is a grace of which the effect is, that a man may have
righteousness if he ivills : the second is a more powerful
one, of which the effect is, that he wills, and wills so
strongly and loves so ardently, that the will of the flesh is
conquered by the contrary will of the spirit. Nor was that
a small assistance by which the power of a concurrent free
as that he could
will was acknowledged ; being so great,
not remain in good without it, though if he willed he could
desert it. But this is so much the greater, as that it is
not enough to say that lost freewill is repaired by it, not
enough to say that a man cannot attain to or abide in good
without it, but with it can if he will : except we add also,
that it makes him to wills *
For we must distinguish between one kind of assist
ance and another. There is one assistance, without which
something is not done, and another by which something
is done. For example, food is a thing without which we
cannot live ; but we have it and die. And therefore food
is an assistance without which it is not effected, not an
assistance by which it is effected, that we live. On the
other hand, if happiness be given
to a man he is forthwith
happy. Happiness, therefore, is an assistance by which
something is, not an assistance without which something
is not, effected. The first man received the gift of being
able not to sin, able not to die, able not to desert good :
that assistance of perseverance was given him without
which he could not be, not an assistance by which he was
persevering. On the other hand, to the saints, who by
1 De Corr. et Grat. n. 29.
2 Ibid. n. 31.