of Christianity but the fire and heat will soon take off all this Paint your Blossomes and Buds will fall with an easy gust you will go back by as many degrees as ever you went forward and though a Saint to seeming in youth yet in old age you may turn Devil yea sooner too and so make good Sancti juvenes Satanici senes the Devils Proverb if you be onely called and are not also effectually called artificial Religion and made Piety is never durable or long-lived rootelesse flourishes will soon be saplesse and hang their heads if the Garment of your Profession be not made of the Sempiterno and Perpetuano of true grace it wil soon wear out If you put not the woofe of an inward work to the warpe of an outward shew you will never make strong Cloth fit for a Saints back The power of Godlinesse will stand where the forme dareth not shew it's head True Saints prove Standers when others turn starters This is your happinesse ye Children ye Sons and Daughters of grace ye shall hold out and continue Let not this breed security and sloth in you but rather confidence and courage and caution Let 1 Cor. 10. 12. him that standeth take heed least he fall If you would stand take heed you do not fall if you would not fall take heed that you stand if you would be sure you must not be secure 10 Glorification The last effect or consequence S. 10 of effectual calling is glory and happinesse in the highest Heavens this I put in the last place as the greatest of all what can be said more than glory enjoyment of God beholding his face for ever And this belongs onely to the effectually called as in the Text Verse Whom he called them he justified and whom he justified them he glorified They shall as certainly be glorified as it were done already and this Peter also teacheth when he saith Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead to an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. Here he speaketh of being begotten again which is all one with effectual calling and by that Inheritance incorruptible reserved in Heaven is meant no other than glory It is undefiled and therefore suitable to them it is incorruptible and cannot perish and therefore they need not fear it shall decay or be lost during their stay on Earth while they are at home in the body and absent from the Lord gracious ones shall be glorious ones Holy ones shall be happy ones The effectually called shall be Eternally crowned Those that have Sanctifying goodness in possession have saving greatness in reversion All the rest of the consequences of effectual calling before mentioned are not enough the Lord will also give Heaven as the perfection and accomplishment of them all He hath given grace and he will give glory and no good Ps 84. 11 12. thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly O Lord God of Hosts blessed is the man that trusteth in thee that is called by thee The Lord called them to make them fit for Heaven for by nature we are as contrary to Heaven as to the way thereunto though we little think it and therefore have it they shall Giving Col. 1. 11 12. thanks unto the Father you see neither Peter before nor Paul now quoted can mention it without Doxology and we should imitate them Which hath made us meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light what is that but Heaven and how did he make them meet why that followes Who hath delivered us from the power of darknesse and hath translated us unto the Kingdom of his dear Son Colos 1. 11 12. What is delivering from the power of darknesse but the bringing of a Soul out of an Estate of nature which is done in effectual calling But as for you that are in your sins for all your challenge Heaven glory is none of yours this Scepter shall never be put into the sinful hands the Crowns of this Kingdom shall never circle the heads that are void of the right knowledg of Jesus Christ unrighteous ones shall not enter in at the Gates of the new Jerusalem living and dying in your sins you shall ever be excluded and shut out let the serious thoughts of it daunt thy Spirit and stop thy course Heaven is not for all Aula coelestis non suscipit nisi Sanctos pios onely for some it is the City House Mansion onely of the Saints amongst the Sons of men onely converted ones shall be Courtiers there CHAP. IX VIII The subject of effectual calling or whom God doth call IN the next place according to the method propounded I am to shew you who they are who the Lord doth thus call for they are not all but some not many but a few and this I shall comprize under three heads 1. His Elect Those whom the Lord hath S. 1 predestinated and elected to glory those he calleth to grace whom he hath chosen for himself those he calleth to himself Election was Praedestinatio est causa gratiae gloriae Aqui. therefore Vocation shall be Vocation is therefore Election hath been The one goeth before the other certainly followeth after whom he had in his heart by Eternal Predestination those he bringeth to his hand by timely regeneration The Text speaketh this plain Whom he did predestinate them he also called And v. 28. foregoing To them that are the called according to his purpose God Elected but some and therefore doth effectually call but some he calleth homeward many he calleth home but his chosen he calleth into the bosome of the Church even those that are rejected into the bosome of Christ onely those that are elected He calleth not all in the world but some out of the world Election and effectual calling though they keep not time yet they keep Company what the number of the one is that is the number of the other The calling of God hath it's bounds it's limits out of which it doth not passe The Lord saith to it as to the waves of the Sea hitherto shalt thou go and not further It is not tied to place Countrey manners parts gifts or the like but onely to the Elect whosoever are not Elect shall not be effectually called whosoever are Elect shall be effectually called The Lord knoweth who are his and he will find them out First their names are written in God's Book then God's grace is wrought in their hearts God first marks them and then moulds them First registreth them and then reneweth them first takes their names then turns their natures multitudes there are whose names are not in Heaven multitudes there are who shall never attain to true grace we may suppose
the Company these are the goods that Saints converse with that Saints communicate off 4. Adhering to the truth This is the fourth S. 4 thing that followeth upon effectual calling Their hearts being united to Christ cannot but be united to his truths Because God hath from the beginning chosen you to Salvation through Sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth whereunto he called you by our Gospel 2 Thes 2. 14. Suppose this whereunto hath reference unto the whole that went before Vid. Bez. in loc then belief of the truth is included Many Books have it not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the neuter gender but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Feminine and many Latine Books follow this and so then whereunto may referre to truth or belief so that it is plain that when they were called and converted by the Gospel they were called to the belief of the truth as well as other things It is a precious mercy when Soules can say with Paul that through the grace of God They can do nothing against the truth but for the truth 2 Cor. 13. 8. This is a great favour at all times but especially in this age when there are so many backsliders and Revolters from the truths of God when others fall that some should stand when others like Weather-cocks turn every way that some should stand as firme Pillars in the house of their God when others like Children are tossed to and fro and carried about Ephes 4. 14. with every wind of Doctrine that Gods people should speak and keep to the truth in love when others are like wandring Planets that they should be fixed Starres in the Right hand Nimiùm altercando peritas amittitur Sen. of the Father when others by vain janglings come to fall off from and reject the truth they by humble and sober inquiries find out and receive the truth Christ promised that if any do his Fathers will he shall know of the Doctrine whether it be of God or whether he speak of himself John 7. 17. It is true of all Doctrine those that are Doers are discerners those that are gracious have that Spirit within them whereby they know light from darknesse truth from errour that which is sound from that which is rotten and can judge of that which is taught whether it be Heaven or Earth-born from God or from Men that which is chaffe they refuse the pure grain they embrace the drosse they put away the massy Gold they take to themselves Truth is most welcome and sweet to them They receive the truth in the love thereof affectionately cordially they lodge it in their bosomes and lock it in the Cabinet of their Psa 119. 11. heart Verity is precious with them as well as Sanctity They have a care to look to the workings of their head as well as the walkings of their feet a sinful notion is displeasing to them as well as a sinful Action a sound head and a sound heart go together false Doctrine and filthy deeds shake hands they can both lie in one Bed no wonder that they walk loosely who are not girt about with truth ungodly Ephes 6. 14. Non benè cinctus non bene dictus conversation is usually supported by erroneous conceptions but an heart changed by grace doth not allow it self in sin and therefore needeth not to embrace false Doctrine for the maintenance thereof It dareth come to the light and a bide the Trial Truth is it's right hand it 's guide It hath bought the truth as Prov. 23. 23. the Scripture phrase is and will not sell it It is dear to it and as Jonathan loved David so it 1 Sam. 18. 1. loveth truth as it 's own Soul It beareth witnesse delighteth in speaketh and Prayeth for the truth and with the Martyr can say Though I have not a reaching head to dispute yet I have a resolved heart to die for the truth It will contend Jude 3. might main for the truth delivered to the Saints It s heart riseth within it to see wanton errour in these dayes take the Wall of truth Its Spirit is stirred within it to see false Doctrine ride on Horse-back and truth to go on foot a begging Thus it is with those whom the Lord hath wrought upon by grace they were born of truth they are the Children Friends of the truth And wisedom is and will be justified of Matth. 11. 19. her Children But as for you who are unconverted a little matter will divide between you and truth seeing your heart is not set upon it 5. Justification In the next place all that are S. 5 effectually called are justified and their sins forgiven as it is in the Text Vers And whom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he called them he also justified There is remission of their sins imputations of Christs merits The Lord taketh their filthy Garments and causeth their Iniquity to passe from them Zech. 3. 4. and clotheth them with change of Raiment Their Rags are taken off and Robes are put on and they are clad in the Garments of their elder Brother It is a sign of favour from the Knolls Hist Great Turk when a rich Garment is cast upon any that come into his presence This is a special favour of God to cast by the hands of his grace the rich Scarlet Mantle of Christs perfect obedience upon the backes of any and this he doth onely to his Jedidyah his beloved one his called ones By him all that believe are justified from all things from which they could Acts 13. 39. not be justified by the Law of Moses Moses condemneth Christ condoneth Moses accuseth Christ acquitteth Moses chargeth Christ dischargeth all his Saints all his converts all his changed chosen-ones This Jewel is hung upon the ear this Chain about the neck onely of the regenerate Christ takes to himself their Nostra delicta sua delicta fuit ut suam justitiam nostram justitiam faceret Aug. unrighteousnesse gives to them his own Righteousnesse but as for you that are in the filth of your sins you are yet under the guilt of them they all stand uncrossed unpardoned what a dreadful thing is this when one and that the least of your sins is sufficient to plunge you into hopelesse and helpelesse depths of misery You that are Saints therefore consider what an unspeakeable mercy and Priviledge this is to have all thy sins done away and cast behind Gods Back that he should remember them no more Your sins are pardoned though the Teares of repentance stand in your eyes that you cannot read your Pardon thou art as perfectly pardoned as ever was Abraham Isaac Jacob or the Saints of the highest forme in Christs School though thou be but an Abcdarian and mean Scholler if thou beest called indeed all is wiped out in Gods debt Book that might be brought against thee yea in Am. lib. 1. Med. 27. cap.
but thou hast refused to walk in them I have written to you the great things of my Law but hitherto they have been accounted Hos 8. 12. as a strang thinge by you The Lord hath called you first in one place and then in another First by one Minister Friend and Book and then by another Hath sent many Epistles and Letters subscribed by his own hand sealed with his own Ring by his appointed Posts and Messengers and yet all will not do no answer is returned my unworthy self have divers years called you in the name of the Lord and this poor Book the meanest in the Library of Divine writings speaks to you to this purpose let not all these bear witnesse against thee so shalt thou not be judged with a witnesse Hath wisedome prepared all things and sent forth her Maidens several times to Prov. 9. 1 2. summon thee in and yet wilt not thou come but remain in the tent of thy folly Verily Friends this is a Lamentation and there is reason it should be for a Lamentation If you call your Child or Servant often to come to you and they move not how doth it trouble you How do you think the Lord will take it at your hands that come not after so many sendings for You have often heard of Christ and repentance but yet you will not accept of the one nor act the other You have often been intreated to close with Gods will and you would never yet enter upon his waies You can denie none of this that I say Your conscience tells you the same what not changed after all this what a wretched creature art thou that makest not the Lord welcome after all his journeies from Heaven to thee Had you had but one call it had been a great evil to have slighted it but when you have had so many how great must your contempt needs be For the Lord to send Servant after Servant to require repentance to call to conversion and you to return no sutable Fruits to give no demonstratious of ought but barrenesse is a sin of no inferiour nature What is that whereby the Lord in Scripture doth so aggravate the stubbornesse and sin of his people and doth leave and give them up into the hands of miserie and punishment for is it not this because 2 Chron. 36. 15 16. he hath spoken so often and they regarded not The Lord hath but whispered to some so that they have not understood his voice fullie to others he hath called but hath as soon turned his back upon them as they upon him and hath not returned to make any more offers but with thee it is far otherwise the Lord hath spoken to thee with a more clear and distinct voice and though thou hast run from him yet he hath run after thee and hath not ceased to call upon thee and to bespeak thine heart for himself but this hath he done daie after daie week after week and yet thou continuest in thy contradiction and perseverest in the perversenesse of thy rebellious heart 2. In regard of the variety of the agent The S. 4 Lord hath come to you in several shapes the manner of his calling hath been divers He inviteth Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden Matth. 11. 21. He commandeth This is his Commandement that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ 1 John 3. 23. He wooeth and intreateth We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God 2 Cor. 5. 20. He threatneth Every Tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewen down and cast into the fire Matth. 3. 10. He wisheth O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my Commandements alwayes Deut. 5. 29. He chideth and expostulateth Why will ye die O house of Israel Ezek. 18. 30 31 32. He promiseth Whosoever believeth in Christ shall not perish but have everlasting life John 3. 19. The Lord doth as I may so say turn every stone and trie conclusions for the turning Quid est cor durum ipsum est quod nec compunctione scinditur nec pietate mollitur nec movetur precibus minis non cedit c. and conversion of thy stonie heart and varieth the manner of such dispensations on purpose to accommodate himself to us seeking our good and yet thy froward waieward spirit doth not regard He hath come as I may say in a several dresse and habit and yet thou hast not been taken with him The Lord hath come with a loud and with a low voice with melting mildnesse and with terrifying threats with pure Commands and with a precious Covenant with cordial invitations and with confounding comminations But you have not been allured by favours nor scared by frowns You have not been wonne by wooing nor converted by counselling It is strange and sad that you are so stubborn that you will not be drawn with the Silken cords and Golden bands of promises so stout that the discharge of God's Canon threatning doth not make you stoop so rebellious that the Authoritie of God's Command doth not awe thee so stiffe that his angrie chiding doth not make thee bend The Lord hath hung out his white Flag first and then his black Flag and yet thou dost not resign nor give up the Castle of thine heart to him He hath piped unto thee but thou hast not danced he hath mourned but Matth. 11. 17. thou hast not lamented If his Messengers tell thee of thy lost condition and dreadful condemnation then thou art readie to say he hath a Devil and Preacheth nothing but Hell If he tell thee of the grace of God in Christ and the freenesse of salvation then thou art readie to presume and goest on securelie in thy sins saying it shall be well with thee though thou adde drunkenesse unto thirst John Baptist and Christ both have come The Deut. 29. 19. Lord hath thundred from Sinai and breathed from mount Sion and yet you cavil and Nunquam deest impiis reprobis quod calumnientur have something to object against your own souls The Lord hath come to you like a Lion and like a Lamb he hath come to thee like a man of War and like a Friend in Peace he hath come with his drawn Sword in indignatition and his Royal Scepter of reconciliation he hath come with his rod of Iron and that of Gold too He hath called thee in a tempest and in a calm He hath used fair means and foul what are you so crosse that nothing shall please you Is your mouth so out of tast that nothing can be well relished with thee Are you so averse that you will shunne God in all these wayes and pathes wherein he comes to meet with you Shall neither sweet nor soure things have operation upon you Doth not the blustring storm make you seek a Sanctuarie Do not the warm Sun-beams melt and
must be upon precept precept upon precept line upon line line upon line here a little and there a little They Isai 28. 10. give you short and easie lessons but a little at a time that you may the better get it by heart They explicate illustrate it by the help of the spirit for your better understanding Though you have but weak conceptions yet they have plain expressions Though you have but shallow parts yet they have significant phrases Pro qualitate audientium formari debet sermo doctorum and such as are faithful do study to have their words conformed to the model of your apprehensions and deliver themselves in a familiar way that you may know where to find them They speak English that thou maiest understand them Therefore thou art inexcusable O man or woman whosoever thou art 5. If thou be of a dull heavy sluggish regardlesse S. 10 temper The Minister he doth his endeavour to quicken thee if backward he seeks to draw you forward He is earnest and instant urgent and pressing If you be cold he is very hot if thou lie still he is stirring if thou wouldest sleep in thy sins he labours to rouze thee if thou be loath to hear he is loud if thou secure he goeth about to shake thee if thou hast no feeling nor sence of any thing he seeks to touch thee to the quick For so are the Ministers of the Lord commanded to do Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voice like a Trumpet and shew my people their transgression c. Isai 58. 1. If thou be a dead-hearted creature they are to sound the Trumpet in thine eares If thou be spiritually deaf they speak the louder and more vehemently in a more then ordinary manner How fervent hath the Minister been many times that he might startle thee How zealous that he might be a means to enliven thee he hath been more than usually earnest and hath been carried out with a more then ordinary vehemency and vigour Supr a modum quibus verbis melius significatur tum servornm Dei audacia tum populi surditas obfirmata Jun. in loc that he might make thee sensible of thy condition and bring thee to a sight of thy sins He hath wearied himself that he might win thee and spent his lungs that he might speed thy course He hath roared in reproof been exquisite in examination pathetical in perswasion that he might rouse thee from thy secure rest rectify thy mis-judging thoughts and raise thee from the bed of sin He hath thrown Hell-fire into thy face hath opened to thee the posterne of Heaven that thou mightest have a glimpse of glory and all to make thee nimble and vigorous in seeking grace in sueing for a pardon in setling upon Christ He hath been carried out beyond himself hath been enlarged above measure hath out-done his standing abilities that thou mightest be carried into the bosome of a Redeemer live no more with a streightned heart to God that thou mightest have ability to do for God 6. Some say they are forgetful and have S. 11 no memory They are like a sive and cannot retain but though it be thus with thee yet repetitions are made use of for thy good which is a commendable thing for as much as we find warrant for it in Scripture what else is the Book of Deuteronomy but a repetition of of what was formerly delivered This was Paul's course when he saith To write the same things to you to me indeed is not grievous but for you it is safe Phil. 3. 1. Hath not the Minister spoken to thee the same things divers times either in the same or several words he hath inculcated and repeated that thou mightest the better remember somewhat He hath often harped and struck upon the same string that thou mightest be inabled to retain the note How often hath he repeated the doctrine of faith the duty of repentance Directions means motives have been gone over again and again so that if thou remember not it must needs be more through wilfulnesse than forgetfulnesse and more through the obstinacy of thy heart than the oblivion of thy head you have had the same thing presented to you more than once and yet is the representation and Idaea thereof out of your mind I might have spoken to many other excuses that people have but by these and their answers may the rest be satisfied when they have had time and opportunities and means of getting grace and God hath provided remedies against their weaknesses which might stand in the way to hinder them when things have been propounded pressingly delivered lively and yet have not been savingly closed withal when truths have been ingeminated and not applicated what excuse can they have for themselves Is it not plain that they wilfully neglect Conscientia mille testes grace and voluntarily slight the calls of God and will not their own conscience be the chief witnesse against them 3. The magnitude of God's providences In S. 12 the next place consider in what and how many Nullum est momentum quo homo non utatur vel fruatur dei bonitate misericordia remarkable providences the Lord hath walked towards thee He hath clouded thy condition sometimes and again hath caused the Sun of more comfortable dispensations to break forth and shine upon thee with its cheering beams He hath broken thine estate that it may be thou wast not worth a groate and again hath increased thy substance unexpectedly that thou art become great like a skilful Arithmetician he hath lessened thy means by substraction and division and hath augmented it by multiplication he hath preserved thee from destruction Jonah 1. 17. M. Bridge by drowning when thou wast at the brink of danger and hath provided for thee a chamber of preservation even in the belly of confusion as he did for Jonas as a late Divine saith well Thou ladst a fall from a ladder or pair of staires and yet the Lord caught thee in his hands that thou wast not broken to pieces and yet thou hast not fallen down upon thy knees with humiliation and sorrow for thy sins nor given up thy self into the hands of the Lord to be fashioned and framed to that temper that likes him best Thou wast at the mouth of the grave by sicknesse and yet the Lord returned thee to the Land of the living but for all this thou hast not been sensible of thy spiritual death in sin nor breathed after a recovery to grace you were invaded by the fury of fire but the Lord came in to your rescue as he did to the three Children in the fornace and yet you have not sought to escape the fire of Hell The Lord hath brought you into such a Town or Family and there hath done you good and yet you have not sought to be one of the Family and houshold of Faith If thou do but set down and reckon thou
24. Thes Job 13. 26. some sence sins to come they are forgiven Virtually a dreadful thing to see the hand left of God writing bitter things against a Soul Inprimis for this transgression Item for such a wickedness and such a folly and so on in infinitum to a numberlesse multitude of Iniquities but a delightful thing to see the Right hand of God dashing and blotting out all and sealing up the Book of Accounts and clasping it with love that it shall never be opened to the Soules condemnation what a confounding thing is it to see a flying roule with a Catalogue in it of sins committed and curses deserved what a comforting thing is it to hear of and see an Act of Oblivion and Indemnity relating to ones own particular To consider how the Lord hath laid the sins of a Soule upon the true Scape-goate the Lord Jesus to be born away into a Land of forgetfulnesse This is a singular mercy of the Plural Number for it containes many mercies in it It is more worth than all the Crowns and Scepters in the world and this great rich invaluable pearleful and peerelesse mercy goeth hand in hand with effectual calling they are loving and inseparable companions Oh who now would not prize effectual calling who would not pray for it for themselves and theirs who would not praise God for it who are effectually called since if purified they are undoubtedly pardoned 6. Adoption Those that are effectually called S. 6 are called to be Children they are now entertained into Gods House into his bosome they are his near Relations they are his Sons not onely by Creation as all are nor by common Profession as some are nor by Eternal generation as onely Christ is but by Spiritual Regeneration and special adoption as his beloved ones as his believing ones are But as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 many as received him to them gave he power or Priviledge to become the Sons of God even to them that believe on his name Onely believers on Christ and receivers of Christ are Sons and have we not the same sweetly expressed by the Apostle Come out from among them and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing there is Gods call which he makes effectual by causing the Soule to close with it Then I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my Sons and Daughters saith the Lord Almighty There is the precious Priviledge 2 Corinth 6. 17 18. And again Ye are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jesus Gal. 3. 26. And that we might receive the adoption of Sons Galat. 4. 6. To have the Church our Mother is much but to have God our Father is more How do many glory in Titles of dignity and honour and boast of their Relation and alliance to or descent from persons of eminency and think themselves glorious when drest and set out with these fading spangles what then is it to be descended from the Eternal and immortal God to be so nearly allied to the Soveraign of the world the King of Kings and Lord of Lords when Saul offered to make David his Son in Law by giving Merab to him he thought the preferment too high for one of his Extract to make a Contract with a Kings Daughter therefore saith Who am I and what is my life or my Fathers Family in Israel that I should be Son in Law to the King 1 Sam. 18. 18. And when Saul's servants suit him for their Masters Daughter he speaks again after the same manner Verse 23. And it is said afterwards that it pleased David well to be the Kings Son in Law Verse 26. So saith a gracious heart with modesty and humility sensible of it's own nothingnesse Lord what am I but a Worm a Wretch a dead Dogge I am a Sinner and so were my Progenitours there is nothing in them or me why thou shouldest make choice of me to be thy Son The Soul admires this condescendency of the Lord and accounts this Sonship worth all as it is said of Theodosius that he more gloried in being the Servant of Christ than the Emperour of the East You that are Carnal are Enemies and Strangers to God you that are called are his Friends and acquaintance the other are Servants in the lowest sence you Sons in a special sence The spouse of Christ is called the Kings Daughter Ps 45. 13. Such honour such dignity have all his Saints what aspiring is there in the world after greatnesse renown honour insatiable thirsts unwearied labouring for these things till Men loose their credit reputation honour lives yea and Soules too but they are not to be compared with this they are but twinkling Starres to this shining Sun 7. Sanctification Those that are effectually S. 7 called are called to be Holy in the whole course of their lives So saith the Apostle God hath not called us unto uncleannesse but unto Holinesse These Heavenly Courtiers go all in the white clothing of Sanctity the Children of the great King are dressed in the soft raiments of Piety and grace they walk in clean paths they follow Holinesse not to persecute but Heb. 12. 14. to practice it not to drive it from them but to draw it to them not with loathing but with love They have given up their names to Christ and they would not defile their nature with sin they have taken Christs pay and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they would not do the Devil service they study and care to walk with God like Enoch and are careful to look to the Garden of their hearts in which God hath set the Plants of grace that the Serpent get not in It is their John 4. 34. meat and drink to do the will of their Father with Christ they have put on Christ by Faith in effectual calling and they would not make Provision for the Flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. 14. They have put off their coat of sin and they are loath to put it on again they have washed their feet and they are unwilling to defile them as the Spouse is brought in speaking though in another way Cantic 5. 3. I onely allude if you enquire or look for a Man or Woman that is effectually called one may say he is not here in the way of sin but he is risen you shall find them in the way of grace the narrow strait way in the path of Piety Thou that art yet unchanged art still in the dirty miry road of impiety with the Dogg and the Sow thou delightest in filthinesse thou art swearing blaspheming drinking gaming cheating scoffing lying reviling Prov. 5. 14. vide Jun. in â—â—c Pares cum â—â—â—itus Thou art not onely almost but altogether in all evil in the midst of the Congregation and assembly that is openly before all Thou hast thine haunt with vain persons and keepest company with dissemblers but the converted