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A53932	Sound doctrine, or, The doctrine of the Gospel about the extent of the death of Christ being a reply to Mr. Paul Hobson's pretended answer to the author's Fourteen queries and ten absurdities : with a brief and methodicall compendium of the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures ... : also of election and reprobation ... : whereunto is added the fourteen queries and ten absurdities pretended to be answered by Mr. Paul Hobson, but are wholly omitted in his book.	W. P. (William Pedelsden); Hobson, Paul.	1657 (1657)	Wing P1046; ESTC R30088	45,061	64

his Son and his Spirit to relieve the miseries and wants of man to forgive sins to impute righteousness and to give life to such as obey his Son and his Spirit And Man to humble himself for his sins to God his Creator to believe in Christ his Redeemer and to yield himself to be led by the word of God and Spirit But here are two things affirmed which may seem to require proof First that the Covenant of Grace was made with all Mankinde Secondly that he supplieth by his Spirit whatsoever is needful to the keeping of this Covenant on the behalf of man who is confest impotent in himself through his former fall These two shall by Gods assistance be sufficiently proved afterward when I come to speak of calling and free will In the mean time let this suffice First that we finde here in the day of the first publishing of the Covenant all Mankinde in Adam and Eve receiving the promise of the Gospel at the same time that they received their penances which we see to be universal to all their seed it is therefore more then probable that promises should be taken as universal since the wise do say Ampliandi favores Secondly that we finde left after the fall remains of some part of the Image of God as life understanding of good and evil liberty of will in natural and civil things conscience accusing or excusing c. Which though they were given at first by Creation and so belong to nature yet the staying of them to remain in man after his fall was of Grace both to make him capable to contract and Covenant withal and also to be some beginnings and principles in order to his restauration but since these alone are not sufficient to make him able to rise again or recover righteousness it is decent to think of God who doth nothing imperfectly and who in Covenanting is no hard Master that he would supply by his Spirit whatsoever was needful more to the keeping of that New Covenant upon which dependeth the eternal woe or the eternal happiness of the party Covenanted with CHAP. V. Of Calling by the Word and Spirit CALLING is the Revelation and Proclamation of the riches of Gods Grace in the Gospel to all sinners commanding repentance towards God and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ Act. 20.21 and promising of forgivenesse of sins and life everlasting to all that obey Act. 2.38 39. Calling consisteth of two essential parts both which are requisite to make up one whole and perfect work of calling i.e. the outward preaching of the word and the inward operation of the Spirit accompanying the word There are many and too many that distinguish calling into two kindes one outward of the word onely another inward of the Spirit joyned with the word That they say is ineffectual This effectual That common to the Reprobate This special and peculiar to the Elect That never obeyed with truth of heart This never disobeyed This Doctrine is to be examined before we give it a let-passe For my part I distinguish not two callings but compound one calling of the word and Spirit as it were of a body and Soul supposing it to have in it self power to bring forth effect in all that are under it and if it do not so the cause not to arise from the Calling but from the called that obey not 1. For declaring of this point we are to consider that the Spirit doth not go with the word to make the hearer perform that which he can do already by natural strength for the Spirit is given to help where nature faileth as to keep waking and to be attentive for that which men can bring of their own strength God expecteth to finde and to meet one cause therefore why to many the Spirit is not present to the word is when they are not present to the word through their sottish carelesness Secondly it must not be thought that the concurrence of the word and spirit is as it were natural necessary and inseparable but voluntary and arbitrary in the will and good pleasure of God to such as heartily pray for it for themselves and others hence the Church of Christ prayeth before Sermons for the illuminations and power of the Spirit to come with the word Another case then where the Spirit is not co-working with the word many times is when it was not duly and diligently asked Thirdly there are men that are past grace to whom the Spirit is not present with the word such as for their former neglect and contempt of the time of their visitation when God did call them are now given up to blindness and hardness and have the light of the Spirit and the dew of grace held back from that word which is preached in their hearing by accident Fourthly it must not be thought that the Spirit goes with the word to work any grace in any person whatsoever but according to the order of divine providence who dispenseth his grace wisely which is thus to be declared we are to distinguish the word that calleth the persons that are called and the operation of the Spirit by the word the word is either the Law or the Gospel The Law hath two parts and so also hath the Gospel a Commandment and a Promise 2. The persons called by God in the Gospel are all manner of sinners but convicted terrified wounded full of compunction and self-condemnation wrought in them by the Spirit in the preaching of the Law Matth. 11.28.3 The operations of the Spirit upon these men by the ministry of the Gospel are First to open their eyes to see the marvelous light of Gods mercy to sinners of the infinite love of Christ in dying for sinners of the powerful gifts and graces and aids of the holy spirit to help and relieve the impotency and misery of sinners to the end that by this light this opinion may be begotten in them that it is possible for them to be recovered Secondly to pour into their hearts hope or to stay them from desperate sinning or sorrowing Thirdly to inspire the grace of prayer at least to wish or desire Oh that they might be so happy as to escape the wrath to come and recover the love and favour of God! Fourthly to give them repentance that is to sorrow for sin past with a godly sorrow and to purpose to break off sin and to cease from further offending God Fifthly to work in them faith that is to run to Christ and to cast themselves into the arms of his goodness and power to be saved by him These graces in this order the holy spirit is present and ready to work by the Gospel upon a sinner convicted humbled and prepared by the Law And look what portion of power the Spirit had in the Law upon an unregenerate man to humble him the same hath it in the Gospel upon the humbled to work in him hope and him hoping to win to wish and pray