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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECTION I. A Distinction about Calling.
1. I Shall lay down a Distinction. There is a twofold call. 1. An outward call, which is nothing else but Gods blessed tender of grace in the Gospel, his parleying with sinners, when he woes them to come in and accept of mercy: Of this our Saviour speaks, Mat. 20.16. Many are called, but few chosen. This external call is insufficient to salvation, yet sufficient to leave men without excuse.
1. I Shall lay down a Distinction. There is a twofold call. 1. An outward call, which is nothing else but Gods blessed tender of grace in the Gospel, his parlying with sinners, when he woes them to come in and accept of mercy: Of this our Saviour speaks, Mat. 20.16. Many are called, but few chosen. This external call is insufficient to salvation, yet sufficient to leave men without excuse.
2. There is an inward call, when God doth wonderfully over-power the heart, and draw the will to embrace Christ; This is, as Saint Austin speaks, Vocatio alta, & efficax, an Effectual call. God, by the outward call, blows a Trumpet in the ear; by the inward call, he opens the heart, as he did the heart of Lydia,