The sstclat effeEtuall calling to Chrift. nay, it is notonely flint up andcannot come to God, but unbeleefe barres thedoores, that jefus Chrift cannot come to it: therefore, tohn IAA. He came tohis owne, andhis enne re ceived himnot ; but in the r i. verfe, to as manj as receivedhim,ro them be gave power to be the Sonnes of od: this unbe. leefe barres the doores, and raïferh Forts againfi him, and clofeth every crevis of the heart, that nota bearneofmercy, nor a glimpfe ofpitty,can be let into the foule, fo long as it is in this candi. fion. I befeech you obferve it, unbeleefe is a fn, not fomuchofole faculty of the foule, but it is that as carries the whole manwith it : as when a man lets himfeife in any unrulywill and will be ruled thereby, fo that it flops every paffitge, and there is no entrance for mercy ; for looke as it iswith faith, the root of it is in thewill, but the rule of it is over all the whole man , and therefore faith carries all the whole foule to God ; love, and hope, and joy, and all goes to. wards God, and thevery fame nature unbeleefe hall, tocarry the foule fromGod ; the root ofit is in the will, but the rule ofit is inthewhole man, and keepes the foule under thepower and authority of ir, as by faith wee goe home to the Lord Jefus Chrifl, and arecontent that he íhould doe what he will with us :fo unbeleefekeepes the foule under command, and will difpofe of all at his owne pleafure,this is the poyfon and venome of this corruption, it flops all thepaffages ofthe foule, that Chriff cannot come at it, nor it at Chrift, fo that ifeternall life andhappinefí'e were eid
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