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

To conclude, before Mr. Shepherd's answer take me off, it must be proved, that this is the sense of Moses and Paul, which he supposeth to be true, but is denied: Yet again, suppose it were so, I have not met with one Divine, who will maintain that all Christians are bound to come up to Moses and Paul in their wish: but both Mr. Hooker and Mr. Shepherd have made that whereof we now treat, a part of the Souls humiliation and preparation for Christ, and therefore must be found in all.

Eighth Position. Those works which are called preparatory unto Christ, do most (if not all) of them, abide in the Soul after its union with Christ.

The hewing of the Stones and Timber which prepared them for the Temple, did remain after the Temple was built; the hewing of Timber, making of Tenants, Mortises, which prepare for the House, abide when the House is set up and perfected; so do these works which prepare and make the Soul fit to close with Christ, to be made his House, Heb. 3.6. Those works which Mr. Shepherd saith make the Soul preparatively happy. That clear, real and constant light, yea, the legal fears (whether they come from the Spirit of bondage, or no, I now dispute not) sorrows; that willingness that Christ should take away sin; that humiliation, emptying the Soul of its confidence in any of its duties and righteousness: and if that be a preparatory work, to make the Soul quiet without Gods Love, and to be content to be disposed of by him to hell and damnation; this, with almost all the rest, ⟨p. 25⟩must abide after Union; only when I say must abide, I do not intend it of legal fears, and legal sorrows; of these I only say, they are found often in many truly regenerated, that are actually in Christ; but for all the rest, they must abide.