' . . -~4 Chap. 2 .SeCl.4 Looking UJ:ito 1ifm, Booidi. where it comes in power: Oh ! it will be like fire in thy bowels; like a two-edged fword in the fecret places of thy heart, thou wilt cry out, verily God is here : Oh the power i the conviElion ; the meltingJ of my foul that I fee!e within me! . 2, If God hath ordained thee to falvation, then,fooner or Ia· ter God will effectually call thee. Moreover whom he did predeftinate, them he alfo called; this calling isa calling of the ~oul Roll, s. ;e~ from finne,from amongft the reft of the world unto Jefus Chrtft; · it is fuch a call as enables the foul to follow Chrifi; as Matthew ' being called by Chrift, he arofe 11nd follswed Chriff. Thefe two Mattb.g f · are linked together in Pauls golden chaine, predeftination and • effectual vocation. We are bound to give thank/ alway unto God for .you, hrethren, beloved of the Lord; and why fo? becaufe God h11th from the beginning chofen you to Jttlvation.- 2. Thef, 1 ; 1 ~ Whereunto he · called you by our GoJPel to rhe obtaininiT of the li• glory of the Lord Jefm {hrift. All thofe that belong"'coGods · • election, are fometime or other effectually called by the Word and Spirit ofChrift; and it !Duft !leeds be fo, becaufe as the,Lord hath put a difference betwtxt hts elea: and others before the world was, and he will make a final difference betwixt them and others, after the end of the world, fo he wiLl ha-re them differenced and diftinguHhed whileft they are in this world by this in~ ward, effedual, operative calling; they are men ofother minds• wills, affections, difpofitlons, converfations; they are c.tlledfrll11S darkz:ef!e to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. As ACl ~· 3 , the Apoftle, ye were fometimeJ dark_nef!e, hut ~w are ye light £ph~f.r:s:7; in the Lord.-.Be not ye therefore 1artak!rs w1th them. 3. If thou art chofen for falvation, then fooner or later thou tbalt have true foul.faving, juftifying faith; AJ mant, as were ord11ined to eternal life beleeved. When God hath a people to AC\' call home to himfelf, he either brings them to the meanes, or the • 1 r, 48{ meanes to them, and thofe that belong to the election of grace beleeve ; 0 my foul, haft thou this faving faith ·? not a fancied faith,a dead faith,an ea!Ie faith,but faving faith;fucha faith as wag wrought in thee by theWord andSpirit with power;fuch a faith as was not in thy power to give, nor in thy power to receive, until God enabled thee by his Spirit; ~hen hereisthy groundthatthou . • art ordained to cternat.life : for whom he calls he juftifies; and ~om. ~· JG. ~ . '"i¥'C Are jufiifted h] faith. Nocthattheeffehce offaith juftifies, OQl·S· l. . P~ bu~
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