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

Quest. But how shall we find out this deceit?

Answ. Bring down this general into particulars, and then we shall find rottenness enough. I will but name a few Heads, not all, you may enlarge.

First, Carry this Lord to thy particular bosom lust, to thy special creature-idol, see, is Christ Lord there? hast received him King, to subdue and cast out that special lust of thine? be it the sin of thy constitution, or the sin that attends thy calling, be the lust what it will, the Peccatum in deliciis, the Benjamin of thy Soul, in which the life of the old man is bound up, I could part with all but this: Is it an ambitious, a vain-glorious lust? Is it an unclean lust? Is it a covetous worldly lust? Is it a bibbing, a potting lust, or any other? Try here, Christian, for here have many Professors been woefully deceived, they have received Jesus Christ the Lord, yea, in general; but, as in Grammar, when a general Rule hath been laid, presently comes in the Excipe's, so in these Professors, Christ is received King and Lord, Excipe, except in this particular lust, this particular idol-creature, upon which the heart is set. As in London, though such a one was Lord Mayor of London, yet there ⟨p. 260⟩[…] ⟨p. 261⟩[…] ⟨p. 262⟩[…] ⟨p. 263⟩[…] ⟨p. 264⟩were some particular privileged places in London (if I be not mistaken) exempted from his jurisdiction as to Arrests, that his Sergeants could not execute his Authority for arresting men in such a place: Thus it is with some, yea, too many Christians, they will call him Jesus Christ our Lord, thus they receive him, but yet have their particular places, they have their special lusts and idols, which must not come under his arrests, nor subject to his Authority; but Christ will never own it, that he was received as Lord, though Men may say to him, Lord, Lord,