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

This is all the answer of this reverend man, I omit not one syllable.

In which I desire the Reader to observe; that for the word quarrel, it was his putting in, not mine; for I did never intend to justify, that a Creature should quarrel with his Creator; though we read of those in the Scripture that did so, in the day of their temptations: but this was their infirmity: This, as I have shown, was another question, and I have spoken to this before.

In which I desire the Reader to observe; that for the word quarrel, it was his putting in, not mine; for I did never intend to justifie, that a Creature should quarrel with his Creatour; though we read of those in the Scripture that did so, in the day of their temptations: but this was their infirmity: This, as I have shewn, was another question, and I have spoken to this before.

Also he may observe, that I have not mistaken the sense of the question, disputing against careless content: For then I would not have called such a Soul a damned Saint, if such a thing be attainable: Yet a strange Riddle, if the thing be attainable in this Soul, under that preparation we have mentioned, and the question speaks of, that the highest Act of quiet subjection to the Justice of God, which no rational Creature can imagine the like, can be performed by one where there is no Grace as yet.