Sa.CT.XII. I IS.> 0o> . ,> .. W t C2 , > Y;°('á7 a<cfl c / F 114114 4V Vr4V attrA7Vi SECT. XII. Handling the VVork of Graceunder the Title of Vocation or Calling. SERMON XCIX. The .áture of Vocation opened in re- #ecI of the Efficient and Infirumental Ceufs of it, Rom. 8.30. Moreover wham hedidpredeiins te, them he adfo cAUéd, &co Ehave confidered the Work of Grace under feveral emi- nentTitles that theScripture giveth to it. The next I (hall pitchupon, is, Vocationor Calling; for Converfion is often notified by this term. And this Text will afford a jult occafion to treat of it. To underftand the Text, let us confider the divine and admirable Connexion of this verfe with theprecedent Matter at the 28'10 verfe. The Apoftle afterother Confolations adminiftred to af- filledbelievers, he giveth them thisfoveraign Cordial, All things Werktogether forgood to them that are called according toGods peorpofe. Thispromife or faithful faying is enough tobear up the heart of any troubled believer, for what can he defile more?If this will'not fatisfie,what can?Though thyadverfities,temptations are calledevils in refpeet offenfe,yet in refpeft of thy fpiritual advantage,fo they are good adverfities, they aregood evils without any contradietion ;and fee how emphatical every word is. We know, not onlyPanl,but all thegodly by theirex- perience,and wifecomparing ofthings together,come toknow this.This is facha truth, thatno Chril}ianfhouldbeignorancof; And then All things; he loth not faySome,but all things; not only profperity, not only fpiritual mercies, but even all miferies and atflietions whatfoever, yea fins themfelves by Gods good- heffe being repented of, make themmore wary and humble; as fire drivethout pain
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