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

Answ. I deny the Consequence. Unless I be content, quiet, well satisfied without the Lords Grace, he is not Lord of his own Grace: Doth Gods being Sovereign of his Grace depend upon my being content without it?

Answ. I deny the Consequence. Unless I be content, quiet, well satisfied without the Lords Grace, he is not Lord of his own Grace: Doth Gods being Soveraign of his Grace depend upon my being content without it?

But I answer secondly, That there is such a Truth, that the Lord is Sovereign of his own Grace, that he will have mercy on whom he will have mercy; we must acknowledge and tremble at it, though we know many men cannot digest it: but to teach that Sovereignty in this place, to a Soul under this work, brought now up to the great sense of the want and high prizing of it, I think it immethodical.

But I answer secondly, That there is such a Truth, that the Lord is Soveraign of his own Grace, that he will have mercy ou whom he will have mercy; we must acknowledge and tremble at it, though we know many men cannot digest it: but to teach that Soveraignty in this place, to a Soul under this work, brought now up to the great sense of the want and high prizing of it, I think it immethodical.

To preach it, I say, in the calling of the Soul home to Christ, under the work of Conversion (which is our question) is no Apostolical preaching; Mr. Shepherd, nor any other, ever found that in Christ or his Apostles preaching. I put that question to old Mr. Daniel Rogers, Whether it were the duty of Ministers to preach the Sovereignty of Gods Grace, to give it where he will, when we are upon the work of Conversion, or effectual Calling, and the Soul under that work? He answered, To preach the Sovereignty of his Grace, in triumphing over all the guilt and vileness of the broken hearted sinner, that lies under the sense of his sin, is proper preaching of it: This is very true, but this is not Mr. Shepherd's sense.