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

Answ. For answer hereunto, the lesson that the soul must learn, is this, namely, the fullness of the mercy, and grace, and salvation that God the Father hath provided, and also offered to the poor humbled sinner, in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, which in deed is able to do that for a poor sinner, which all the means and things in the world could not do, and yet notwithstanding he needs. I have heretofore discussed the poor miserable plight which a sinner hath brought himself ⟨p. 37⟩into by his manifold rebellions. There is no help, no hope of himself, in what he hath or doth to relieve and succour himself, and therefore he falls flat at the footstool of the Almighty, and is content to be at his disposing. Now the lesson that the soul must learn, is the fullness, greatness, and freeness of the perfect salvation which is brought unto us through the Lord Jesus Christ. And that we may not learn this lesson by halves, but fully and perfectly, and that your minds may conceive of the same, give me leave to lay it out fully, because it will be profitable for our ensuing discourse: and this lesson discovers it self in three things, as in three lines, as I may so term it.

Answ. For answer hereunto, the lesson that the soule must learne, is this, namely, the fulnesse of the mercy, and grace, and salvation that God the Father hath provided, and also offered to the poore humbled sinner, in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, which in deed is able to doe that for a poore sinner, which all the meanes and things in the world could not doe, and yet notwithstanding he needs. I have heretofore discussed the poore miserable plight which a sinner hath brought himselfe ⟨p. 37⟩into by his manifold rebellions. There is no helpe, no hope of himselfe, in what hee hath or doth to releeve and succour himselfe, and therefore he fals flat at the footstoole of the Almighty, and is content to be at his disposing. Now the lesson that the soule must learne, is the fulnesse, greatnesse, and freenesse of the perfect salvation which is brought unto us through the Lord Jesus Christ. And that we may not learne this lesson by halfes, but fully and perfectly, and that your minds may conceive of the same, give me leave to lay it out fully, because it will be profitable for our ensuing discourse: and this lesson discovers it selfe in three things, as in three lines, as I may so terme it.