A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

Answ. These you may perform by Gods grace enabling, whereas the other are naturally impossible in this state, even to believers themselves. But let the next consideration serve for a fuller answer.

Answ. These you may perform by Gods grace enabling, whereas the other are naturally impossible in this state, even to believers themselves. But let the next consideration serve for a fuiler answer.

5. Wherein you are impotent, God doth offer grace to enable you. I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, Prov. 1. 24. What though you are plunged into the ditch of that misery, from which you can never get out? Christ offereth to help you out; he stretcheth his hand to you, and if you perish, it is ⟨p. 165⟩for refusing his help. Behold I stand at the door, and knock: if any man open to me, I will come in, Rev. 3. 20. What though you are poor, and wretched, and blind, and naked, Christ offereth a cure for your blindness, a cover for your nakedness, a remedy for your poverty, he tendereth you his righteousness, his graces, I counsel thee to buy of me gold, that thou mayst be rich, and white raiment, that thou mayst be clothed, and anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayst see, Rev. 3. 17, 18. Do you say the condition is impossible, for I have not wherewith to buy? You must know, that this buying is without money, and without price, Isa. 55. 1. This buying is by begging, and seeking with diligence and constancy in the use of God's means, Prov. 2. 3, 4. God commandeth thee to know him, and to fear him. Dost thou say, Yea but my mind is blinded, and my heart is hardened from his fear? I answer, God doth offer to enlighten thy mind and to teach thee his fear: that is presented to thy choice,