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Epbafianr,C-hap:i.
us
according to
his
purpofe
,
is
never
without
effct
:
his
withius
in
this
call,
as it was
with thofe
Chrift
called
to follow him,
Mat.4.zo.
he
did
fo
reveale his
will withinthem,that they prelently obeyed.
We
may know our felves called.
Firft,
if
our
hearts
anfwer
God;
Thus
Paul,
Xis
9. Lord
what wilt
thou
.l
Jhould
doe
!
4th
a6.
I
was not
dfobedient
to
the heavenly vifion.
When
God
fpeaketh
within
us his
grace,or calleth
us
to
this
or
that,according to
hiseffeétuall purpofe
;our
hearts eccho.wife refound,
Tbca
art
our God,Nofea
Z.#lt.Speak
Lard,
thy
fervant
hearer h.
Secondly, it
is
feene
by this,
that
it maketh
us
feparate and
Hand
out
from the world.
If
a
governour call
out
a
fervant to doe this
or
that,
he
is
feparated from
all
his
fellow fervants,
and
let apart for abuuneffe
wherein
they intermedie
not;
fo
it
is
here
;
From what time God doth
call
us
unto falvation, he
doth let
us
apart from
all
others,to
be
as
it
were
the
firfl
fruits
of
his
creatures
,lam 1.18
.even
from
prophane perfons,
civili
men,without
religion, religious men
in
fhow,
without power,
He-
retickes,Schifmatickes,his calling
doth
make
us
come out
from
thefe,fo
that
we cannot
be
ofone
heart with
them, nor they with
us.
Thirdly,
by the fpirit received
;
When
God called
Saul,
he did
put
into him another fpirit, agreeing to
the conditionwhereto
he was cal
-
led
:
and men called
to
places
of
dignitie, prefently
there
is
a
fpring
of
fpirits in
them,
anfwering
that
eftate;
fo
God
alto,
when he
cal
leth
to
his
Kingdome
and
glory,
he
doth
give
them
a
fpirit
which
doth
afpire and make
them endeavour
to
that prife
of
this their high
calling
in
Chrift.
Laftly,
by
thankefulneffe
to
God
in
regard
of
this favour,
that
bee
hath
called
us
out
of
our naturali cftate
of
mifery,
to
fuch hope
in
Chrift.
The
Life
is,to let men
fee
their vanity, who
though
they obey
no
part
of
Gods
will revealed
to
them
,
though they
are fo far
from feparating
from
prophane
worldly
-
minded perfons,
that they
cannot be themfelves
in
any
other company
;
they traduce others
as
proud, ungular, humo-
rous
Puritans, who have
no fpirit
apparent,
but
a
fpirit
of
pride,
wrath,
luit, &c. yet they hope for falvation and
Gods Kingdome. This
is
to
hope
to
have this or that from
God,
before he bath
called me
to ob-
raine
it;
which
is
all
one,
as
if
I fhould hope
to
be
Lord Cham-
bedaine,though the
King never
made me heare any inckling
of
fuch
a
matter.
This
muff
flirre
us up
to get knowledge
of
this,
that
we are
called:
Hencefolloweth
all
grounded hope
;
Befide, this
is
all our
flay, he
who
hath
called us,is
able
to
poffeffeus of
that
whereunto
he
hath
called
us.
If
earthly Kings
calla fubjea to
this
or that
honour, their
call
is
effe-
¿tuall, accompanied
with that power which
will
fa
them
in
it
;
So
the
Lord
will
certainely
fetus
in
poffeffion
ofthat
to which he bath called
us in
Chrift
;
as
Gods
call and anointing
David
to the Kingdome,
did
fuftaine him againft all
incounters
;
fo muff it
doe with
us,
who
are
cal.
led
and
anointed
in
fpirituali
manner, to that heavenly Kingdome
;
Fie
Yfe
tâ