Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

He next noteth it as a remarkable contradiction in adjecto, that I say, (Vocation uneffectual is common to Pagans) saying, that [Calling in Scripture Phrase is not a bar• tender, but accompanied with a professed answer.] Repl. This is like much of the rest. Let these Texts be judge, Prov. 1.24. (Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded, but ye have set at nought all my counsel, &c.) so Isa. 65.12 When I called ye did not answer, when I spake ye did not hear, &c. so Isa. 50 2. & 66.4. and Jer. 7.13. & 35.17. Mat. 22.3, 5. He sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden, &c. But they made light of it, &c.] I shall recite no more. It hath not been thought a contradiction by Protestants or Papists that I know of, till now, to talk of [uneffectual calling] So much of Mat. 28.19.

He next noteth it as a remarkable contradiction in adjecto, that I say, (Vocation uneffectual is common to Pagans) saying, that [Calling in Scripture Phrase is not a bar• tender, but accompanyed with a professed answer.] Repl. This is like much of the rest. Let these Texts be judge, Prov. 1.24. (Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded, but ye have set at nought all my counsel, &c.) so Isa. 65.12 When I called ye did not answer, when I spake ye did not hear, &c. so Isa. 50 2