Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

First, Converting grace, and that

1. In the power and efficacy of it; for how powerful must that grace needs be which had wrought so great a change, had suppled that heart in an instant which had been hardening in sin for so many years? overcome so many stubborn inveterate lusts at once, and made the Man all on a sudden commence one of the most eminent Saints the World had ever yet had, and act faith to such an height, as might not only have become the chiefest of the Apostles, but did really exceed any they had hitherto shown? The Disciples of Christ who had sat so long at their Masters feet, yet were hardly induced to believe his Resurrection, even after he was risen, Luke 24.25. When this thief who hitherto had been a stranger to him, and now saw him hanging on a Cross, and dying, yet by faith sees him in his Kingdom triumphing over his Cross and Death too.

1. In the power and efficacy of it; for how powerful must that grace needs be which had wrought so great a change, had suppled that heart in an instant which had been hardning in sin for so many years? overcome so many stubborn inveterate lusts at once, and made the Man all on a suddain commence one of the most eminent Saints the World had ever yet had, and act faith to such an hight, as might not only have become the chiefest of the Apostles, but did really exceed any they had hitherto shewn? The Disciples of Christ who had sat so long at their Masters feet, yet were hardly induced to believe his Resurrection, even after he was risen, Luke 24.25. When this thief who hitherto had been a stranger to him, and now saw him hanging on a Cross, and dying, yet by faith sees him in his Kingdom triumphing over his Cross and Death too.