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

What the Sovereign God might have done with his Creature I deny not; but it hath pleased him graciously to deal with man as a rational Creature, giving him commands, and doth many times give this reason for obedience, I am Jehovah; but yet withal, he gives Arguments suitable to the will; there is good for it. How often is that Argument used to israel, That it may go well with you and your Children? How many promises of good? How many threats of evil, from which the will flies? Then fly from disobedience. Let us observe the twelfth of the Hebrews; what Arguments the Spirit of God doth give to quiet Christians under afflictions, want of common mercies: Is Sovereignty the only Argument there insisted upon? Search and we shall find others, and but little of that, if any thing at all: Verse 3. an example from Christ our Lord and Head what he suffered: ver. 6. the love of God, Whom he loveth: ver. 7. Children's fare, He deals with you as Sons: ver. 8. Else Bastards: ver. 9, 10. Our own fathers after their own pleasure; here was a fit place to have added, so God for his pleasure, his sovereignty: but the Spirit opposeth, God chastiseth us for our profit, to make us partakers of his holiness. These are all quieting Arguments; so that for my part I do not find the Scripture ⟨p. 123⟩speaking after Mr. Shepherd's manner, who hath insisted upon nothing but only Sovereignty, except his first Argument.

What the Soveraign God might have done with his Creature I deny not; but it hath pleased him graciously to deal with man as a rational Creature, giving him commands, and doth many times give this reason for obedience, I am Jehovah; but yet withall, he gives Argumeuts sutable to the will; there is good for it. How often is that Argument used to israel, That it may go well with you and your Children? How many promises of good? How many threats of evil, from which the will flies? Then flie from disobedience. Let us observe the twelfth of the Hebrews; what Arguments the Spirit of God doth give to quiet Christians under afflictions, want of common mercies: Is Soveraignty the only Argument there insisted upon? Search and we shall find others, and but little of that, if any thing at all: Verse 3. an example from Christ our Lord and Head what he suffered: ver. 6. the love of God, Whom he loveth: ver. 7. Childrens fare, He deals with you as Sons: ver. 8. Else Bastards: ver. 9, 10. Our own fathers after their own pleasure; here was a fit place to have added, so God for his pleasure, his soveraignty: but the Spirit opposeth, God chastiseth us for our profit, to make us partakers of his holiness. These are all quieting Arguments; so that for my part I do not find the Scripture