2 52 Of EMfion. 0J\.../'. heart to him ? fpecially·-\\-•a_s_i t-h-'-i-s_c_v_e-rl_a_fl_in_g_ I,--in_d_o_e_fs_ \1_' 1-,e-re-·,.-.-it_h_h_e_h_ot_h BooK IV. drawn thee? I do not ask whetl>er with Aflurance of that hiS love; I am not ~ fo fevere: For there is another Drawing, even in the wayof Fairh, of Adherence, and Recumbency; wherein he hath propofcd to thy Sotli all rh•t which is faid of his eternal Love to his People, to allure thy Soul to himfelf; ) ea, ond thereby bath allured it, and bath llrengthened thy heart to lpread it and plead it afore him blind-fOld, That he would accept and wrap thy Soul in tbat bun– dle. Etern•l Love bath herein found out, and owned thy Soul, and thy Soul bath owned and laid hold on, or rather refer'd it felf unto. And bath God catt[ed thee, in this manner, thereotJ to trufl, as 'Davtd fpeaks, and to give up thy !elf thereto, as to be faved, to the condud of it, fo to be carried on by it , and to fulf1l in thee the good pleafure of his Will, even the will and the deed, according to his good plea!ure, thou working out thy Salvation in a fubordination and dependance tnereupon; and do the drawings and motions of it in thy heart ll.tl recover thee from fin when th0u art fain, break thy heart, and humble thee for falling; and the little holinefs thou hall,hath come in this way ? And doll thou owe the greatell part thereof (at !call) to thefe drawings by God, and pleadings of thine with God about that his everlalling Love? (or hi4 Free-grace, as we ufually call it) and thy interefl in t? Dofi thou grieve that.thou art not made altogether holy by it? Hath God indeed drawn thy heart (fhall I fay even out or· thy fclf) thus, and taken thy heart thus with. this his everlalliog kindnefs, and canll thou think that this God will leave thee? What, and have drawn t-hee with :his Love? No, he will never do it. He can never find in his heort to do it; his Love bath ingaged it felf to thee, and himfelf thereby. And what is this drawwg by loving kindnefs in Jeremiah, other than in the Trxt, The God of a/J grace h~th ca/JeJ thee1 And in draw– ing thee with loving l<indnefs, bath drown thee to Chrill, according to that of our Saviour, None comes to me6ut htm, whom the Father draws, _ I will but further call in this for the comfort of fame, which this place in Jtrrmiabfuggells: 0! thoumaitl f•yperhaps, I was thus s;frawn and affed– ed once; and for a long time was carried along thereby in fweet and free ac– <eJfes to the God of all Grace, as fnting upon, and reigning in his Throne of Grace; having together with thefe Acceffes, fome holy ObediencCI fuitable, which I carried away with me, from thofe near Acceffes unto Grace: 0 but Wretch that I am! I am greatly fallen and decayed in thofe rerpells: Fo; thy comfort, read but the words afore in thu Prophetical paffage, Again, I will /mild thee ttp, a.td1houfbatl be 6utlt, I know in the letter it is fpoken of re– ftoring thetr outward Condition; but his everlalling love being alledged as the caufe of it, and hi. drawmg them as a conjund Effed, I may warrantably ap– ply it unto their Souls,asGod alfo would have thofe his drawn or catledones•among them to underlland. What do I then inrer from hence? · Hall thou run into Dilapidations and Decays of that former work, when it was a time of Love, and when thou wert thus firft drawn? Lo, Again, fays he, I will !Juitdthee; And why? For my love is everlafiing, and continues the fame: ]will beat their 6ackjltdings, antl love them frul,y, as in Hofea. And what is this alfo, other than what Pettralfo here farther fays, The God Dj afJ Grace who bath cattedVs, will perfe8, the word is reflore, when fain fet in joynt again, whea Iaxated or out of joynt through falls, as Gat. 6. 1. it is ufed, This for the firll Branch of this firft Head, [Bath cafJed;] which was intended by me but only as fome few thit1gs premi{ed about Calling according to God's purpo[e. H. That Calling according toJurpo(e is a_work of that perfeaion fo~ ~int!, with difference from all other works found m others, as thereby God IS Jnga– ged to carry it on unto perfedion. This is added to the former, and is home to the point afore us. I put, you fee, Gc:>d's maintaining of this his work u~ on thefe two things. 1. His fpeciul Love that works in us a work of fuch a kind as bath a perfe– dionin it, z. That
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