The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

God hath his path, which the Vultures eye hath not seen, Job 28.7. Why then should we trouble our selves so much about the ways of Gods working, as look to the work wrought?

God hath his path, which the Vultures eye hath not seen, Job 28.7. Why then should we trouble our selves so much about the wayes of Gods working, as look to the work wrought?

As God is secret, so he is various in his working.

Various, First, For Time. ¹Some who lived in a course of sin, who walked in the ways of their hearts, and in the sight of their eyes, as Solomon Ironically bids the young man, Eccles. 11.9. can tell the time, the day, the Text, the Sermon, the Minister, when God put a stop to their course, opening their eyes, awakening their consciences, made their sweet morsels turn bitter; others can tell the signsl Providence of God, with which he was pleased to work, some sharp affliction it may be he sent, and sealed instruction, Job 33.16 But others cannot tell the time, when God began to work; and this have been to some a long time an objection against the truth of their regeneration, because they cannot tell the time of their new birth; as if all the regenerated persons in the Scripture knew the time when God began to work; as if there were any ground in Scripture for such a Position, All that are new born know the time of their now birth: What Divine, that did deserve the name of a Gospel-Minister, did ever deliver such a Doctrine? Doth not God many times in infancy, in childhood, cast in the immortal Seed, which being watered by the instructions and care of godly Parents at home, who are dropping upon their Children ever and anon, and by the lively Word preached, springeth and groweth up, the poor Christian knoweth not how,