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

More possibly may be added, but I think these are the Heads, be they more or less, by which the Spirit doth usually drive the Soul out of it self. Some Christians experience some of these, some more of them, some fewer: no matter how many of them, or how few, if the Spirit useth any of them, they shall do the work he intends.

For the effects of this work of the Spirit, what follows upon it, I shall briefly touch them, but make no use of it, for the reason I gave in my former Head.

First, The good opinions man had of himself are now confuted; the high thoughts of himself are taken down; he seeth now his money is but brass, not so good: How highly did Paul value his privileges, his Pharisaical righteousness, before Christ came to this work? What a low esteem had he of them all, after this work that now we are upon? Phil. 3.7, 8, 9. thus it is with all true Converts: had the man any opinions in doctrine proud and high, they were never so confuted as now: did he cry up the great Diana of Liberum arbitrium, as most do, [and ⟨p. 105⟩we grant it to be Liberum, when the Son hath made it free] now he calls it Servum arbitrium, as Luther did, ¹and blessed Austin long before him, as Jansenius in his excellent Work doth manifest in several places, and saith, he knows not what that new Writer means (he doth not name him) who saith, Nomen servi arbitrii was never heard of in the Catholic Church for fifteen hundred years; when as he makes it clear by his quotations out of Austin, that he had called it so several times. ²