An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Thus you see a world of difference in the Externals of those that God calls; We might also add the Difference in respect of their Vicinity and Consanguinity. God calls sometimes out of a wicked Family, a wicked generation, a wicked place, where there is none else scarce that minds any thing that is godly. In Caesar's household there were some that believed; sometimes you have a Child converted, when Parents and all the Kindred are desperate enemies to God: Sometimes again, you have Parents and Children, and all godly, as it was with Timothy, in respect of his Mother and Grandmother.

Thus you see a world of difference in the Externals of those that God cals; We might also adde the Difference in respect of their Vicinity and Consanguinity. God cals sometimes out of a wicked Family, a wicked generation, a wicked place, where there is none else scarce that minds any thing that is godly. In Caesar's houshold there were some that believed; sometimes you have a Child converted, when Parents and all the Kinred are desperate enemies to God: Sometimes again, you have Parents and Children, and all godly, as it was with Timothy, in respect of his Mother and Grandmother.

In the next place, Gods conversion of his people is in a different manner. Some have been in an extraordinary manner, as Paul, and many in the Primitive times: Others in the ordinary way of the Word; some •ave had more strange and remarkable passages to convert them than others.

2. Some have more deep humiliation, and greater terrors upon them than others. As some children are born with more pain and difficulty than others. Thus Paul, he was greatly humbled in his spirit, and brought low, whereas Matthew the Publican seemed to be converted, without such deep impression on his heart. Mary Magdalen likewise had great humiliation and bitterness of spirit, else she could not have wept so abundantly as to wash Christs feet. But we read of Lydia, when God opened her heart, that she desired to entertain the Apostles, and discovered not such commotions of soul.