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The souls vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.HThe soules vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.H
The souls vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.H.The soules vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.H.
London: printed by John Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Andrew Crooke, 1638
The Souls effectual calling to CHRIST. › PartThe Soules effectuall calling to CHRIST. › Part
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Motive. 1 To persuade us to use these means, is this, because this most concerns our good, if a man had all the good things the world could afford, and his hearts desire, if he had friends to respect him, wealth to enrich him, and honour to promote him, yet if the Lord should send this heavy Message into his conscience, God will curse those blessings, and dam thy soul and person, that news from heaven of Gods indignation would take away the sweetness of all the comforts of this life; but had a man good tidings from heaven, were the Lord pleased to give notice of his love and mercy in Jesus Christ it would support us in whatsoever miseries or troubles should befall us, nay, when our own hearts and consciences tell us hard tidings, these evils thou hast committed, and they will be thy plague, and for this thou shalt be damned, and fry in hell, this is ill ⟨p. 108⟩news; but this will bear up a mans heart, if he can but look up to heaven, and take good tidings and notice of Gods favour, this will joy and refresh a mans soul.
Motive. 1 To perswade us to use these meanes, is this, because this most concernes our good, if a man had all the good things the world could afford, and his hearts desire, if he had friends to respect him, wealth to enrich him, and honour to promote him, yet if the Lord should send this heavie Message into his conscience, God will curse those blessings, and dam thy soule and person, that newes from heaven of Gods indignation would take away the sweetnesse of all the comforts of this life; but had a man good tidings from heaven, were the Lord pleased to give notice of his love and mercie in Jesus Christ it would support us in whatsoever miseries or troubles should befall us, nay, when our owne hearts and consciences tell us hard tidings, these evils thou hast committed, and they will be thy plague, and for this thou shalt be damned, and frie in hell, this is ill ⟨p. 108⟩newes; but this will beare up a mans heart, if hee can but looke up to heaven, and take good tidings and notice of Gods favour, this will joy and refresh a mans soule.