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

And now I proceed: The Spirit, I say, enlightens the understanding to know him in his Person, Offices, and work of Redemption, whom the Soul is to receive; Phil. 4.9. Those things which ye have learned and received: there must be learning before there can be receiving. The high-way-hearer did never receive the Word, which it seems the stony ground did, Matth. 13.20. Why did not the high-way-hearer go so far as the stony ground? The Text saith, ver. 19. he did not understand the word of the Kingdom, which it seems the other did, but did not set down and consider what it would cost, Luke 14.28. Hence John 6.45. who hath heard and learned of the ⟨p. 162⟩Father cometh to me. He that cometh to Christ receives Christ: Now what goeth before this coming? The Father teacheth it seems several Lessons concerning Christ, the Soul hears, and because he hath such a Master he learns; then follows infallibly that Souls coming: Isa. 53.11. By his knowledge shall my righteous Servant justify many: by our knowledge of him. Divine knowledge taught by the Spirit, is the first thing to make up justifying Faith. Verba notititae apud Hebraeos, &c.

And now I proceed: The Spirit, I say, enlightens the understanding to know him in his Person, Offices, and work of Redemption, whom the Soul is to receive; Phil. 4.9. Those things which ye have learned and received: there must be learning before there can be receiving. The high-way-hearer did never receive the Word, which it seems the stony ground did, Matth. 13.20. Why did not the high-way-hearer go so far as the stony ground? The Text saith, ver. 19. he did not understand the word of the Kingdom, which it seems the other did, but did not set down and consider what it would cost,