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

Fourthly, as unbelief keeps God from the soul, and makes all means unprofitable, and maintains all sin in the strength and life of it: So lastly, it makes the soul of a poor sinner to be in a desperate estate, and a man continuing in this condition, is past hope, help, & recovery; believing is the last covenant that ever God hath expressed; a man may be saved and not do the law, but a man cannot be saved if he do not believe: that's the last covenant and condition of all, and if he stick here, he is past all recovery without a wonderful work from Heaven, Heb. 3.18. There the Lord takes a solemn oath, that they that would not believe, should never enter into his rest: to whom did he swear thus? to them that believed not; God never takes an oath that he that keeps not the law, shall not be saved; or that he that cannot perform to keep all the Commandments, shall not be saved, and never see happiness: no, but he takes an oath, that they that believe not, shall never see happiness, and when God once swears, ⟨p. 367⟩the thing is unchangeable. God never swore that if Adam did not do, he should not live; but if he had not believed in that Christ that was promised, he had never been saved; but though we cannot live by exact doing, yet we may live by believing, and we may go to another to do what God requires of us; and this is the reason of that peremptory curse which God seals down upon the hearts of unbelievers, John 3.18. He that believeth is not condemned, but he that believeth not, is condemned already; he hath one foot in hell, but why is it so?

Fourthly, as unbeleefe keepes God from the soule, and makes all meanes unprofitable, and maintaines all sinne in the strength and life of it: So lastly, it makes the soule of a poor sinner to be in a desperate estate, and a man continuing in this condition, is past hope, help, & recovery; beleeving is the last covenant that ever God hath exprest; a man may be saved and not doe the law, but a man cannot be saved if he doe not beleeve: thats the last covenant and condition of all, and if hee stick here, he is past all recovery without a wonderfull worke from Heaven, Heb. 3.18. There the Lord takes a solemne oath, that they that would not beleeve, should never enter into his rest: to whom did he sweare thus? to them that beleeved not; God never takes an oath that hee that keeps not the law, shall not bee saved; or that hee that cannot performe to keepe all the Commandements, shall not be saved, and never see happinesse: no, but he takes an oath, that they that beleeve not, shall never see happinesse, and when God once sweares,