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

if misery, sorrow, and anguish be multiplied, there is multiplied redemption also. Then know it, if you know your own souls; you see it, if you see your own lives, that it is new sins, new corruptions prevailing with you. But here is the comfort of the soul, as sin increaseth, so mercy increaseth; as corruption multiplies, so redemption multiplies: therefore he is called the Father of mercy; as who should say, he begets mercy, even a generation of mercies, from day to day; and it is a large generation of new mercies framed and made to encourage poor souls: therefore it is said, with the Lord there is a fountain of life. Look as it is with a fountain, there is not only water in it for the present, but it feeds several cocks and conduits; and though it runs out daily, it enlargeth it self daily: So with the Lord there is a fountain of life. If there be a fountain of death in thy soul, in regard of thy sins to kill thee; so a fountain in God to quicken thee. Hence it comes to pass that the Lord speaking of his mercy, calls it the exceeding riches of his mercy, Ephes. 2.7. I say, the Lord hath not only fullness of mercy, but he is rich in all his fullness; nay, he exceeds ⟨p. 39⟩in all the riches of the fullness of his mercy. So that be we never so poor and beggarly, these sins increase, and those miseries increase; why yet though thou be a bankrupt in grace, yet the Lord is full of goodness, full of mercy; yea he exceeds in his fullness, to succour thy heart in all necessities: nay, our miseries and wants be great, yet haply thy fear is greater than all the rest; thy soul is troubled many times more with the fear of what will be, than with the feeling of what is already befallen thee: But now, how ever thy miseries be great, and thy fear exceeds all misery that can betide; yet mercy will remove and prevent those fears, and Christ will do more for thee, than thou canst fear will fall upon thee: Nay, a man doth not fear what misery can befall upon him, but his heart may imagine more than he doth fear. But here is the fullness of mercy, mercy full to the brim, and running over; mercy is able to do more for thee, than thou canst fear or conceive shall come upon thee. Ephes. 3.20. then saith the Lord, exceeding excess, abundantly above that we can ask or think.