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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65292	A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1663 (1663)	Wing W1121; ESTC R38240	88,353	194

weak they fled from Christ but after Christs death it grew more vigorous and they made an open profession of him Peters love at first was more infirm and languid he denied Christ but afterwards how boldly did he pr●ach him Acts 4.10 yea when Christ put him to a trial of his love Iohn 21.16 Simon lovest thou me Peter could make his humble yet confident appeal to Christ Lord thou knowest that I love thee Thus that tender plant which before was blown down with the wind of a temptation now is grown into a Cedar which all the powers of hell could not shake The growth of love will amplifie the reward The more we burn in love the more we shall shine in glory The higher our love the heavier our Crown 4. The more we love God the more love we shall have from him Would we have God unbosom the sweet secre●s of his love to us would we have the smiles of his face the kisses of his lips Oh then let us strive for higher degrees of love Saint Paul counted Gold and Pearl but dung for Christ Phil. 3.8 Yea he was so inflamed in love to God that he could have wished himself accursed from Christ for his Brethreo the Iews Rom. 9.3 Not that he could be accursed from Christ but such was his fervent love and pious zeal for the glory of God that he would have been content to have suffered even beyond what is fit to speak if God might have had more honour Here was love scrued up to the highest pitch that it was possible for a mortal to arrive at and behold how near he lay to Gods heart the Lord makes known the Arcana Coeli he takes him up to Heaven a while and lays him in his bosom where he had such a glorious sight of God and heard those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unspeakable words which it is not lawful for a man to utter 2 Cor. 12.4 Never was any man a loser by his love to God 5. If our love to God doth not encrease it will soon decrease If the fire be not blown up it will quickly go out Therefore Christians should above all things endeavour to cherish and excite their love to God This Exhortation will be out of date when we come to Heaven for then our light shall be clear and our love perfect but now it is in season to exhort that our love to God may abound yet more and more EFFECTUAL CALLING CHAP. XI Concerning Effectual Calling THe second Qualification of the persons to whom this priviledge in the Text belongs is They are the called of God All things shall work for good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to them who are called Though this word called be placed in order after loving of God yet in nature it goes before it Love is first named but not first wrought we must be called of God before we can love God Calling is made in the 30. verse of this Chapter the middle link of the golden chain of Salvation it is placed between Predestination and Glorification and if we have this middle link fast we are sure of the two other ends of the Chain For the clearer illustration of this there are six things observable SECTION I. A Distinction about Calling 1. I Shall lay down a Distinction There is a twofold call 1. An outward call which is nothing else but Gods blessed tender of grace in the Gospel his parlying with sinners when he woes them to come in and accept of mercy Of this our Saviour speaks Mat. 20.16 Many are called but few chosen This external call is insufficient to salvation yet sufficient to leave men without excuse 2. There is an inward call when God doth wonderfully over-power the heart and draw the will to embrace Christ This is as Saint Austine speaks Vocatio alta efficax an Effectual call God by the outward call blows a Trumpet in the ear by the inward call he opens the heart as he did the heart of Lydia Acts 16.14 The outward call may bring men to a profession of Christ the inward call brings them to a possession of Christ The outward call doth curb a sinner the inward call doth change him SECTION II. Our deplorable condition before we are called 2. WHAT we are before this call 1. We are in a state of vassalage Before God calls a man he is at the Devils call If he saith go he goes The deluded sinner is like the Slave that digs in the Mine hews in the Quarry tugs at the Oar he is at the command of Satan as the Ass is at the command of the Driver 2. We are in a state of darkness Ephes. 5.8 Ye were sometimes darkness 1. Darkness is very disconsolate A man in the dark is full of fear he trembles every step be takes 2. It is dangerous He who is in the dark may quickly go out of the right way and fall into Rivers and Whirlpools So in the dark of ignorance we may quickly fall into the Whirl-pool of Hell 3. Before we are savingly called we are in a state of impotency Rom. 5.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 When we were without strength No strength to resist a temptation or grapple with a corruption sin cut the lock where our strength lay Nay there is not only impotency but obstinacy Acts 7.51 Ye do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost Besides indisposition to good there is opposition 4. We are in a state of pollution Ezek. 16.6 I saw thee polluted in thy blood The phansie mints earthly thoughts the heart is the Devils Forge where the sparkles of lust flye 5. We are in a state of damnation we are born under a sad Planet 1 Iohn 3.36 The wrath of God abideth on us This is our condition before God is pleased by a merciful call to being us near to himself and free us from that misery in which we were before ingulphed SECT III. The Means of our blessed Call 3. THe means of our Effectual call The ordinary means which the Lord useth in calling us is not by raptures and revelations as the Familists hold but is 1. Partly by his Word which is Virga virtutis The Rod of his strength Psal. 110.2 The voyce of the Word is Gods call to us therefore he is said now to speak to us from Heaven Heb. 12.25 that is in the Ministry of the Word When the Word calls from sin it is as if we heard a voyce from Heaven 2. Partly by his Spirit this is the loud call The Word is the instrumental cause of our conversion the Spirit is the efficient The Ministers of God are only the pipes and Organs it is the Spirit blowing in them that doth effectually change the heart Acts 10.44 While Peter spake the Holy Ghost fell on all them that heard the Word It is not the Husbandmans industry in plowing and sowing will make the ground fruitful without the early and latter rain So it is not the seed of the Word