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2. If God hath ordained thee to Salvation, then, sooner or later God will effectually call thee. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; ¹this calling is a calling of the Soul from sin, from amongst the rest of the World unto Jesus Christ; it is such a call as enables the soul to follow Christ; as Matthew being called by Christ, he ⟨p. 48⟩arose and followed Christ. These two are linked together in Pauls golden chain, predestination and effectual vocation.² We are bound to give thanks alway unto God for you, brethren, ³beloved of the Lord; and why so? because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation.—Whereunto he called you by the Gospel to the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. All those that belong to Gods election, are sometime or other effectually called by the Word and Spirit of Christ; and it must needs be so, because as the Lord hath put a difference betwixt his Elect and others before the world was, and he will make a final difference betwixt them and others, after the end of the World; so he will have them differenced and distinguished whilst thy are in this World by this inward, effectual, operative calling; they are men of other minds, wills, affections, dispositions,⁴ conversations; they are called from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God. As the Apostle, ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord. — Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

2. If God hath ordained thee to Salvation, then, sooner or later God will effectually call thee. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called; ¹this calling is a calling of the Soul from sin, from amongst the rest of the World unto Jesus Christ; it is such a call as enables the soul to follow Christ; as Matthew being called by Christ, he ⟨p. 48⟩