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

Observe it (I beseech you) I say, as nature cannot do this, so nature will not do it: first nature cannot do it, ¹God is light, and in him is no darkness, ²saith the text, at all: and, Ye were darkness, but now are light in the Lord: A man naturally is nothing but darkness, and God is nothing but light; a man by nature is nothing but unholy, and God is nothing but holy. Now darkness will resist light, and not give way to it; and wickedness will oppose holiness, and not give way to the same: this is thy condition, thou hast an ignorant ⟨p. 231⟩carnal blind heart, and God is light, pure, and holy, and thou canst resist a Saviour, but not entertain him, do what thou canst.

Observe it (I beseech you) I say, as nature cannot doe this, so nature will not doe it: first nature cannot doe it, ¹God is light, and in him is no darknesse, ²saith the text, at all: and, Ye were darknesse, but now are light in the Lord: A man naturally is nothing but darknesse, and God is nothing but light; a man by nature is nothing but unholy, and God is nothing but holy. Now darknesse will resist light, and not give way to it; and wickednesse will oppose holinesse, and not give way to the same: this is thy condition, thou hast an ignorant ⟨p. 231⟩carnall blinde heart, and God is light, pure, and holy, and thou canst resist a Saviour, but not entertaine him, doe what thou canst.

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