5. If you are effectually called, God hath wrought in your souls, an utter detestation and loathing of all the evils that in the former part of your lives before your calling you have committed and were guilty of. Hos. 14.8. Ephraim shall say, what have I any more to do with Idols? The interrogation imports a vehement detestation of them, and indignation against them. 2 Cor. 7.11. the Apostle speaks there of repentance, (the same with calling) when men come to have the work of grace in their hearts: and this is a branch of it: that godly sorrow causeth care, and causeth fear, and causeth indignation: that is, if any man be a repenting man, and a converted man: this conversion will cause indignation; that is, he will be even mad with himself, and angry with himself, that he should be so ⟨p. 37⟩vile a wretch before conversion, as he hath been. Thus was Paul, he speaks with indignation against the sins he was guilty of before his calling. I have been a persecutor, I have haled the Saints into prison: Nay, saith he, I was even mad against the Church. Beloved, you will count your sins to be madness, and count them to be greatly aggravated, that were committed before God called you. Anselm said to his body, I'll tame thee, O unruly beast, with fasting and prayer. We read of one that bit off his tongue in indignation, that therewith he had denied Jesus Christ. Another Martyr put that hand first into the fire, with which he had subscribed a recantation: saying, Burn thou, O hand, that didst subscribe to that which might have made me burn both body and soul in hell. And therefore you that have no loathing thoughts against past deceit, and past drunkenness, and past swearing, and past evils: suspect your calling: You that do not abhor the thoughts of your forme• evils, your wonted pride, and wonted covetousness: if you cannot look with indignation against these, you have great cause to suspect your call: For if God have called you, he will make you even angry with your selves, that ever you have been so vile as you have been. Hence it is, when God speaks of Israels conversion, Isa. 2.20. 'tis said, they shall cast away their Idols from them: they shall cast away their sins as with indignation against themselves, because they have sinned. And hence in the Prophecy of Ezek. 20.43.
5. If you are effectually called, God hath wrought in your souls, an utter detestation and loathing of all the evils that in the former part of your lives before your calling you have committed and were guilty of. Hos. 14.8. Ephraim shall say, what have I any more to do with Idols? The interogation imports a vehement detestation of them, and indignation against them. 2 Cor. 7.11. the Apostle speaks there of repentance, (the same with calling) when men come to have the work of grace in their hearts: and this is a branch of it: that godly sorrow causeth care, and causeth feare, and causeth indignation: that is, if any man be a repenting man, and a converted man: this conversion will cause indignation; that is, he will be even mad with himselfe, and angry with himselfe, that he should be so ⟨p. 37⟩vile a wretch before conversion, as he hath been. Thus was Paul, he speakes with indignation against the sins he was guilty of before his calling. I have been a persecutor, I have hal'd the Saints into prison: Nay, saith he, I was even mad against the Church. Beloved, you will count your sins to be madnesse, and count them to be greatly aggravated, that were committed before God call'd you. Anselm said to his body, I'le tame thee, O unruly beas•, with fasting and pray•r. We read of one that bit off his tongue in indignation, that therewith he had denied Jesus Christ. Another Martyr put that hand first into the fire, with which he had subscribed a recantation: saying, Burn thou, O hand, that didst subscribe to that which might have made me burn both body and soul in hell. And therefore you that have no loathing thoughts against past deceit, and past drunkennesse, and past swearing, and past evils: suspect your calling: You that do not abhor the thoughts of your forme• evils, your wonted pride, and wonted covetousnesse: if you cannot look with indignation against these, you have great cause to suspect your call: For if God have called you, he will make you even angry with your selves, that ever you have been so vile as you have been. Hence it is, when God speaks of Israels conversion, Isa. 2.20. 'tis said, they shall cast away their Idols from them: they shall cast away their sins as with indignation against themselves, because they have sinned. And hence in the Prophesie of Ezek. 20.43.
