Secret andSudden. 381 maw, emommliMIO foule , whereby hee acometh mightily, and as it were cloatheth a manwith power and courage , are ofavery fecret nature , and notwithflanding the power thereof bee fo great, yet there is nothing in apparance but b a voyce , (of all other one of the moil empty and vani- fini,g things.) As Dew Pals in final' and infentibledrops, and as a Childe is borne by flow and undifcernedpro- greties ( as the Prophet David faith , c Fearefidly and wonderflolly am 1 made, ) Such is the birth ofa Chrifiian untoChriti, by a fecret, hidden, and inward call, roca- tione Apia , as S. Aliencalleth it, by a deepe and inti- mate energie of the Spirit ofgrace is Chrifi formed,and the Ionicorganized unto a fpirituall being.A man heares a voyce, but it is d behinde him, hee feethno man ; hee feels a blow in that voyce , which others take no notice of, though externally 'they heare ittoo. Therefore it is obfervable that the men which were with Paula his miraculous converlion are in one place Paid to hearea veyce, 451.9.7. and in another, place, not tohave heard the voyce ofhim that fpake unto Paul, AU.22.9. They heard onely a voyce , and fo were but ationifhed , but Paul heard it ditiinaly as the voyceof Chritl , and fo was converted. Note 4. As it is a Divine and fecret , fo is it likewife a fudden birth. In naturall generations the more vafl the creature, the more flow the prodation, anElephant ten years in the wombe. In humane aetions magnartmtre- rum tardy molimina, great workes move like great en- gines (lowly & by leafure to their maturity : but in fpiri- tuall generations , Children are borne unto Chriff like Dew,which is exhaled,conceived,formed,produced,and all in one night. 'Paul today a Woolfe , tomorrow a Sheepe, to day a Perfecutor, tomorrow aDifciple, and not long after an Apofile of Chrifi. The Nobleman of Samaria could fee no poffibilityofturninga famine into a plentie within one night: neither can the heart of a man, VERSE 3. 2 ludg. (4.6. ludg.6.34. b Matthj 0.20. PC41.21. C Pratt 39.r4. lob o,II. d Efai.33.21. Glaff. Philolog. Sacr.hb.z. 232..
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