244 Of EleC!ion, ~led, & of thy having recieved all things ptrt<>illing to !tfr cmd God/ilujs, which BooK IV, by degrees God hatn drawn out of thy heart, . ~ On!y I mu!\ add this,That in theCa!ling offome,there fhoots up very fuddenly an apparent viftble Elel1ion·Couver/io1J; (I ufe to call it fo) Yuu lhall, as 1 c were, fee Election take hold of a Mam , pull him out wirh a mighty power, !lamp upon lnm the DtvmeNatuere, fiub up Corrupt Nature by the roots, roo! up Self-love, put rn a pnnctple of Love to God, and Launch him forth a New creature the fir(\ day,I.Joth in the fpiritual fenfeof himfelt; and vifibly to'rhe ob– fervationof others. He dtd fo to Pant, and it is not wirhour Example in orhel's after llim, JlS you lhall fee, · • Fir!\ in Paul, I Tim .. '.• •4· The!!,race of 01JI' Lord wm exC'teditJg a6unda11t in faith and iovtwhJChH rn Chrzfl Jefus; ~he work of both which was perfected in the fir!\ four days,that you read of m hts Story m the Afls,andfo in his Epifi. to the Gatatzmzs,Godrrvtt~ird hu Son mme,fays he,Gal. '• u. And it is not without ex3mple of the lrke in others;as oftheTheffaiOIJia>JS,theApofile infian– ces in them,r Tht{: 1 . v.4, )• Knowing Brethren 6tlovtdyour Etel1ion of God:. And why1 The work that was upon you was fo apparent and fuddain ; For our Gojpet c(Jme not unto J011 in word only, but <>ljo in powrr, and in the Hot, Ghofl, and in mucb affi•rrmce; that is, an affurance of the things delivered, as well as in on affurance that they had an interefi in them; As yt lwow wh<>t m,mnerof menwewtreamongyouforyourfahs; And re 6ecamefollowers of us and of the Lord, h!Jving received thr word inmuch af/fil1ion, with joyof the Holy Ghof/: AndVerj:g. A~tdHowyttu•·nedto God from Idols toJerve the living atJd trtu God, ttndto wait for hu Son from Heaven,f~c. There were fuch vifible Converfions then, and forrte~imes nowadays,. I call them E!el1zon·Con– vtrfto>JS,and they are undeniably fllch,and vilibletokens of Election, by fucha work ofCalling,as all the Powers in Heaven and Earth could not have wro~ght upOh a mans Soul fo, nor changed a man fo on a fudden, but only that Divine Power tbar created the World, raifed Chrifi from the dead : Amd the foul that ·feel! it mufi fay fo. - ~· I mufi yet come in with this, That the Scripture fpeaks of a Calling, a work of the Spiritupon men that is called a Calling, and yet is not that Calling the Apofile here fpeaks of, and which we feek for. That fpeech, Mtinr are called, 6111 few art cho(en, which our Saviour Chrifi bath repeated again and again, hut efpecially Matth. 22. '4· where if you look to.the Coherence, you will find it punctual to this point: For there came one in that was called, but wanted the wedding Garment, upon occafion of whom it was Chrifi fays, Ma– '!1' ar~ called, ~c. My Brethren, you fhall obferve in-the very placts I have in the former Ser– mons inftfied on for the proof of purpofing Grace, that the Apofile, when he {peaks of faving Calling, he inferts this by way of difiind:ion, CaJ/ed accord– ing to pttrpoft: The Apofile is fain here todifiinguifh upon it, becaufe there is another:li:;tt df Calling, that is no.t according to purpofe : You find it in Rem. S. 28'. All things work t~getherfor !foodto them that love God, to them that are the Called <>ccording to hid'purpofe: Which difiinction evidently lhews (the l>pofile would not have fo feduloully put it in elfe) that there is a Calling that is not according to his purpofe, but according to the pleafure and menage ofhis commo11 providentialGrace, which accompanies the word, about which is all the Controverfie under the name ofJiifficient Grace, There are fome, both Protefiant and Popifh Divines, that hold Election as { tlrongly as any, amide as fully profefs that there is a ~ailing proceeding· from that Election, and that thofe that are fo called according to his purpofe, lhall never fall away ; and that of fuch this placeRem, 8. 28, is· to be underfiood : But withal, fay they, there is a fufficient Grace vouchfafed to many others, . who are thereby favingly called, and have,: by being called, obtained as true Grace as the other; nay, and fome of them go on to be faved by the fame fuf– ficient Grace continued to them,or revived upon them, and improved by them; and in thofe that do not fo perfevere, there is yet no difference ·in the work of Calling it felt they once had, from that in the Eled:, take the meer work of it, b_utonlyinthceventori!fue, that fomefuehdotlnallyfallaway; whereas none
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