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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13554	The progresse of saints to full holinesse described in sundry apostolicall aphorismes, or short precepts tending to sanctification, with a sweete and divine prayer to attaine the practise of those holy precepts / by Thomas Taylor ...	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 23850; ESTC S1019	235,792	462

of darknesse and translated us into the kingdome of his deare Sonne from kingdome to kingdome from an eternall state of death to an eternall state of life and glory 2. Gods eternall love is hidden with himselfe till effectuall calling discover it And hence it seemes to be called a calling according to purpose not onely as flowing from it but also declaring that whosoever are thus called God purposeth eternall good to them and they may know it shall be made good to them because this purpose is infallible and immutable 3. Effectuall calling is a giving of man by God to Christ to save Ioh. 6.37 Every one that the Father giveth unto me commeth unto me and him I cast not out If then thou knowest thou art once given to Christ thou knowest thy salvation For this calling of God is without repentance Rom. 11.29 this gift is never cast away 4. A man naturally ariseth from the effect to the cause from the fruite to the roote from the streame to the fountaine then in like sort may a man conclude of Gods eternall love by effectuall calling which is a fruite of that roote a streame of that fountaine of predestination to eternall life And whereas wise men may by likely meanes judge of the end much more may a Christian by the infallible meanes judge of the certaine end God leading him by this meanes to the principall end which nothing can frustrate seeing all things fall out to the best to them that are thus called according to purpose Rom. 8.28 5. As in the Law he that had first fruites might expect the harvest so he that is effectually called hath begun his salvation already hee hath begun the heavenly●life upon earth Iohn 3.36 He that beleeveth hath eternall life and is translated from death to life And as the earnest penny confirmes the whole bargaine amongst men so the earnest of the Spirit gives us assurance of full holinesse and full happinesse because he that hath begun a worke of grace in us will performe and finish it to the day of Christ Phil. 1.6 And this reproves not Papists onely who deny that a man may be sure of his salvation without extraordinary revelation but even Protestants who resolve never to trouble themselves about it they will leave all to God and will not enter into his councell but rest in a good opinion and ungrounded hope in which if it happen well they have well But what a folly is this For first What man in any outward title or tenure will content himselfe with uncertainties if he may be certaine of a good estate we would hold him a man distracted that would offer to claime and hold house and land without evidences and conveyances Is any man richer because he dreames he is rich So to dreame of the wealth of grace enricheth none Secondly What is the use of the whole Gospell but to be Gods embassage certifying us of his free grace in electing and saving us what other use than to bring us peace of conscience through justification of faith and what peace without assurance 1 Iohn 5.13 These things have I written unto you that beleeve that yee may know you have eternall life So as the end of all Scripture is not onely to know that there is an eternall life but that beleevers have it Thirdly Why are wee commanded to give all diligence to make our election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 if it be either needelesse or impossible When Christ commands us to rejoyce that our names are written in the booke of life doth he not imply that a man may know it and convince us that the want of this joy is by our owne default Fourthly a man neglecting or despising this comfortable assurance perverts the whole Ministery Doest thou pray for remission of sinnes and not beleeve it thy prayer is a dead carcasse Doest thou professe in the Creed thou beleevest remission of thy sinnes and by not caring to beleeve it give the lie to thy profession Doth the word preached command thee to beleeve in the Lord Iesus Christ and that thy Redeemer liveth who loved thee and gave himselfe for thee and wilt thou sticke in an idle conceit as if it were needlesse to wade into this deepe Are the Sacraments but as seales set to blankes without this assurance and is it yet needlesse Doth the Apostle say that hee that knowes not that Iesus Christ is in him is a reprobate and is it an idle or a needlesse thing to prove it 2 Cor. 13.5 Quest. But where may I come to this assurance Answ. We send not men to poare upon the doctrine of predestination nor to soare up to heaven to pry into Gods councell But thus Looke downe into thy selfe examine if thou beest effectually called see what God hath done in thee and so maist thou judge what he will further doe in thee and for thee This is indeede an hard taske and requires all diligence which the Apostle Peter calls for unto it For 1. Satan seeks to plucke from us this comfort of our lives both before our calling causing us either to shut our eare from the voice or by picking and pulling the seede out of the heart by carnall distractions and objections And after our calling perswading men all is deceitfull or vaine God is not at peace with them nor they with him 2. Most men rest in generall outward calling which is ineffectuall 3. But chiefly the likenesse of outward ineffectuall calling unto it makes it harder to be discerned Quest. Wherein is the likenesse betweene effectuall and ineffectuall calling Answ. First by ineffectuall calling a man may come to the feast and sit downe at Gods table as the unworthy guest did may seeme one of the friends of Christ may make shew of answer to the call in respect of outward profession and conformity to the doctrine when the heart answers not nor resolves to answer Deut. 5. The people came to Moses and said Whatsoever the Lord commandeth that will wee doe But the Lord said Oh that there were such an heart in them If the call were denied or fairely excused and put off as some of the guests did this were more discernable But many come in among true worshippers and bring in lampes and some oyle and are the more hardly discerned Because as the same Sunne earth raine roote moisture brings up the chaffe as doth the wheat so the same meanes of word and Sacraments nourish the hypocrite which doth the sound hearted Christian. Secondly by ineffectuall calling a man may come to a great measure of knowledge of the word to consent to the truth of it may preach it yea soundly handle it for the conversion and saving of others may preach it in the name of Christ that is for his glory and by his grace Many of those that preached in the name of Christ shall come in the last day and challenge acquaintance of him to whom he shall say I never knew you