The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

4. Doth not the Lord let in that infinite and surpassing sweetness of grace, when he works the soul to believe, standing in extreme need of that grace, that it cannot but come and cleave to it? Psal. 63.2, 3. I long to see thee, saith David, for thy loving kindness is better then life; is it possible for a man not to cleave to his life? much more to that which is better then life: the light is so clear, it cannot but see and wonder at grace, the good is so sweet, it cannot but taste and accept what God so freely offers;¹ and therefore the poor Canaanitish woman, Mat. 15. could not be driven away, though Christ bid her in a manner be gone; but she made all the objections against her arguments for her (as usually faith doth, when ⟨p. 166⟩under this stroke of the Spirit) The violent take the Kingdom of heaven by force; the Spirit puts a necessity upon them, and irresistibly overpowers them, and this is the cause of it.

4. Doth not the Lord let in that infinite and surpassing sweetnesse of grace, when he works the soule to beleeve, standing in extreame need of that grace, that it cannot but come and cleave to it? Psal. 63.2, 3. I long to see thee, saith David, for thy loving kindnesse is better then life; is it possible for a man not to cleave to his life? much more to that which is better then life: the light is so cleare, it cannot but see and wonder at grace, the good is so sweet, it cannot but tast and accept what God so freely offers;¹ and therefore the poor Canaanitish woman, Mat. 15. could not be driven away, though Christ bid her in a manner be gone; but she made all the objections against her arguments for her (as usually faith doth, when ⟨p. 166⟩