A Call to the Unconverted

for the case is alike▪ Gods Decree is as peremptory about your bodies, as your souls. If you do not, then try first these conclusions upon your bodies, before you venture to try them on your souls: see first whether God will keep you alive without food or raiment, and whether he will give you corn without tillage and labour, and whether he will bring you to your journeys and without your travel or carriage: and if you speed well in this, then ⟨image 32⟩try whether he will bring you to heaven without your diligent use of means, and sit down and say, we cannot sanctify our selves.

for the case is alike▪ Gods Decree is as peremptory about your bodies, as your souls. If you do not, then try first these conclusions upon your bodies, before you venture to try them on your souls: see first whether God will keep you alive without food or rayment, and whether he will give you corn without tillage and labour, and whether he will bring you to your journeys and without your travel or carriage: and if you speed well in this, then ⟨image 32⟩try whether he will bring you to heaven without your diligent use of means, and sit down and say, we cannot sanctifie our selves.

And for the point of Free-will which you harp so long upon, Divines are not so much disagreed about it, as you imagine. Augustine as well as Pelagius, Calvin as well as Arminius, the Dominicans as well as the Jesuits, all do generally maintain that man hath Free-will; but the Orthodox say, that Free-will is corrupted and disposed to evil. Epiphanius condemned Origen for saying that man had lost the image of God, and makes it a point of Heresy. And yet one may truly say, that man hath lost Gods image, and another may truly say that he hath not lost it. For there is a twofold image of God on man; the one is Natural, and that is, Our Reason and Free-will, and this is not lost. The other is Qualitative ⟨image 32⟩