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

The Scriptures which he maketh use of to prove his Position are these, Levit. 26. 41. (this he quotes more then once, being his chief) Lament. 3.22, 29, 30. Micah 7.9. 1 Pet. 5.6. For the Parable of the Prodigal, upon which Mr. Hooker grounds his Doctrine, before I had read his Book, and knew that to be his Text, I had framed one Argument against Mr. Shepherd out of it, nor do I at all shrink from it by what I read in him: For that I must desire the Reader to stay till I come to my Anascevastick part. For Mr. Shepherd's Texts, I hope the case of Israel at that time, was the case of the Soul in question, viz. Israel was now under the work of Conversion, turning ⟨p. 112⟩home to God, who had called so often; and now being under this work, and being made willing to come home to God, Israel was or must be content, quiet, well apayed and satisfied, though God will not receive him, never give him his Love nor Grace, but leave him under the dominion of his lusts, and damn him eternally: those Texts must prove this, else there is a fallacy near to Ignoratio elenchi: for the Texts do not conclude, the question if they conclude not this.

The Scriptures which he maketh use of to prove his Position are these, Levit. 26. 41. (this he quotes more then once, being his chief) Lament. 3.22, 29, 30. Micah 7.9. 1 Pet. 5.6. For the Parable of the Prodigal, upon which Mr. Hooker grounds his Doctrine, before I had read his Book, and knew that to be his Text, I had framed one Argument against Mr. Shepherd out of it, nor do I at all shrink from it by what I read in him: For that I must desire the Reader to stay till I come to my Anasceuastick part. For Mr. Shepherd's Texts, I hope the case of Israel at that time, was the case of the Soul in question, viz. Israel was now under the work of Conversion, turning