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

Secondly, he gives Jesus Christ into the hands of a poor sinner, that he may take him, and receive mercy from him. Now though thou canst not believe, yet if Jesus Christ take that heart of thine in hand, he can and will make thee believe. This was the end of his office and coming; John 6.44. No man cometh unto me except the Father draw him, and I will raise him up at the last day: I will make him believe, and in the grave I will love his poor body, and not lose so much as his •shes, but will preserve them there, and raise him up from thence, and at last I will bring both body and soul to honour, and make both happy in Heaven for ever: for Christ his sake think on this earnestly, that every broken hearted sinner is given to Christ, as if God the Father had said, Oh my Son, look well to such a man, he lives in a base world, and hath many corruptions in his heart, but look thou to him: John 10.16. Other she•pe I have which are not of this fold, and these I must bring home saith Christ: there are many of ⟨p. 332⟩Gods people called and converted, but there are many yet which are in the gall of bitterness; and I know such a drunkard, and though he be a wolf now, yet he is one of my sheep, and him I must bring home: It doth my heart good to think that there is many an enemy of Jesus Christ, and many that hates grace and goodness, many a wretched drunkard, many a covetous and unclean wretch that shall be brought home: One goes up and down this way, and another that way, as a company of poor sheep that wander up and down, one falls into this ditch, another into that, and another in such a grove: so there is many a poor sheep that goes away from God and all goodness; the Lord give us hearts to pity them: howsoever God hath opened your eyes, and brought your hearts, and my heart home to himself; yet there are many other sheep that as yet go from God. Oh, what a blessed mercy is this? If Christ hath once undertaken for you, he will seek you out wheresoever you are. The Lord seeks you out many times in the congregation, you might come home then if you would: well the Lord will make the fire of hell to flash upon the conscience of a man, and drag him home, but it is no matter which way the Lord brings him home, so he come to heaven at last.