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

Use. 4 Terror: we may see the hopeless condition of those men that live under the Gospel, and their hearts are not wrought upon them. If the Spirit of God, and the Gospel of God, will not work upon thee: if thou hast the eye of a man about thee, thou mayest see thy woeful and lamentable condition. If a bungling servant cannot tell how to hew a piece of wood for a building, it is no marvel; but if it be such a piece, that the master Carpenter cannot make it fit for the building, then it is good for nothing but to be burned: So it is here with the soul, if the Spirit of God can do thee no good, who can? if we, a company of bunglers, cannot do it, no marvel; but if our master Christ, if he takes a stubborn sturdy heart in hand, and cannot do it, it is fit to be damned. Is not that man miserably ignorant, that wisdom it self cannot make wise? is not he sick of sin, ⟨p. 70⟩whom the Gospel cannot cure? 1 Cor. 4.3. I desire those whose conscience to this day accuse them that yet they are blind, and those that brave it out, and say, Shall I fear the face of a man? no, no, I scorn it; I beseech you let me deal with you, do not brave it out so, for it is the greatest misery under the Sun, for thou dost as good as to say, thou wilt not have the word of God to work upon thee. James 1.21. The word of God is able to save thee, and to sanctify thee, and art thou yet polluted and defiled? Oh, take heed of it, go and be move thy soul to the Lord, and say, Good Lord, such a drunkard thou hast met with, such a proud heart thou hast humbled, and such a stubborn heart thou hast plucked upon his knees; and if drunkards be humbled, if the ignorant be instructed, then what a cursed heart have I, that was loose and vile, and base and profane before, and so I am now. I tell thee, what can you think of your selves? if the Spirit go with the word, and thou mock at it, thy condition is lamentable.

Vse. 4 Terrour: we may see the hopelesse condition of those men that live under the Gospell, and their hearts are not wrought upon them. If the Spirit of God, and the Gospell of God, will not worke upon thee: if thou hast the eye of a man about thee, thou maist see thy wofull and lamentable condition. If a bungling servant cannot tell how to hew a peece of wood for a building, it is no marvell; but if it be such a peece, that the master Carpenter cannot make it fit for the building, then it is good for nothing but to be burned: So it is here with the soule, if the Spirit of God can doe thee no good, who can? if we, a companie of bunglers, cannot doe it, no marvell; but if our master Christ, if he takes a stubborne sturdie heart in hand, and cannot doe it, it is fit to bee damned. Is not that man miserably ignorant, that wisedome it selfe cannot make wise? is not he sicke of sinne,