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

Fourthly, They considered what were the ends of God in these legal workings: the ends of God why he brings any under these terrors, are not for themselves, but something else; that is, to make sin so evil, so bitter to the Soul, that it may be willing to be separated from it, and so remove from this term, from which it is called. ⟨p. 81⟩Secondly, To make Christ highly precious, and make them willing to come to him, and close with him upon his own terms: Gods end is not to commend us to Christ, because so humbled, so terrified, but to commend Christ to us: Had a man as many terrors as Judas had, if those ends were not attained, he were not truly prepared for Christ: he that hath the least of those that any man had, yet if the ends be attained, he hath that which the Lord aimeth at, and as to preparatory work is sound: There are many Christians, who have not found the tenth part of those legal, hellish terrors, which others have done, yet have proved sound, and got to Heaven, when others, notwithstanding their great hellish terrors, have at last gone to Hell: Thus therefore they examined their hearts, and found,

Fourthly, They considered what were the ends of God in these legal workings: the ends of God why he brings any under these terrors, are not for themselves, but something else; that is, to make sin so evil, so bitter to the Soul, that it may be vvilling to be separated from it, and so remove from this term, from which it is called. ⟨p. 81⟩Secondly, To make Christ highly precious, and make them willing to come to him, and close with him upon his own terms: Gods end is not to commend us to Christ, because so humbled, so terrified, but to commend Christ to us: Had a man as many terrors as Judas had, if those ends were not attained, he were not truly prepared for Christ: he that hath the least of those that any man had, yet if the ends be attained, he hath that which the Lord aimeth at, and as to preparatory work is sound: There are many Christians, who have not found the tenth part of those legal, hellish terrors, which others have done, yet have proved sound, and got to Heaven, when others, notwithstanding their great hellish terrors, have at last gone to Hell: Thus therefore they examined their hearts, and found,