The souls vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.HThe soules vocation or effectual calling to Christ. By T.H

Doctrine. The Spirit of the Lord kindles in an humbled heart, and enlightened sinner, love and joy, to entertain and rejoice in the riches of his mercy: there are three passages to be considered, that so we may see the compass of the point in hand.

Doctrine. The Spirit of the Lord kindles in an humbled heart, and inlightned sinner, love and joy, to entertaine and rejoyce in the riches of his mercy: there are three passages to be considered, that so we may see the compasse of the point in hand.

Passage. 1 First, this love and joy is no where to be found but in a heart humbled and enlightened, for unless the soul be humbled before God, it seeth no need of grace or mercy, and therefore despiseth it, and disclaims it, and is carried with a hatred against that grace that would master his corruptions and purge them: Nay the soul is carried with a kind of wearisomeness, and is pestered with the power of grace that would frame his heart anew, his corrupt heart is rather troubled with it, than any way delighted in it; and if humbled and not enlightened, be could not be enlarged to bestow his heart thereupon, nor carry himself with that pleasure and delight which otherwise he would: this is the first passage. I know there is a wild kind of love and joy in the world, counterfeit coin; but this is not the love and joy we mean, we will have garden love and joy, of the Lords own setting and planting; those carnal hypocritical joys we will not meddle withal.

Passage. 1 First, this love and joy is no where to be found but in a heart humbled and inlightned, for unlesse the soule bee humbled before God, it seeth no need of grace or mercy, and therefore despiseth it, and disclaimes it, and is carried with a hatred against that grace that would master his corruptions and purge them: Nay the soule is carried with a kinde of wearisomnesse, and is pestered with the power of grace that would frame his heart anew, his corrupt heart is rather troubled with it, than any way delighted in it; and if humbled and not inlightned, be could not be inlarged to bestow his heart thereupon, nor carry himselfe with that pleasure and delight which otherwise he would: this is the first passage. I know there is a wilde kinde of love and joy in the world, counterfeit coyne; but this is not the love and joy we meane, we will have garden love and joy, of the Lords owne setting and planting; those carnall hypocriticall joyes we will not meddle withall.