5. It is a gracious call, it is the fruit and product of free-grace. That God should call some, and not others; some taken, and others left; one called who is of a more rugged mo•ose disposition, another of acu•er parts, of a sweeter temper, rejected, here is free-grace: That the poor should be rich in faith, heirs of of a Kingdom, Jam. 25. And the Nobles, and Great ones of the world for the most part reprobated, 1 Cor. 1.26. Not many Noble are called. What is this free and rich grace? Mat. 11.26. Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. That in the same Sermon one should be effectually wrought upon, another, no more moved then a dead man with the sound of Music; that one should hear a Spirits voice in the Word, another not hear it; that one should be softened and moistened wi•h the influences of Heaven; another, like Gideons dry fleece hath no dew upon him; behold here distinguishing grace! The same affliction converts one, hardens another? affliction to one, is as the bruising of Spices, which cast forth a fragrant smell; to the other is as the stamping of Weeds in a Mortar, which are more unfavoury; whence is this, but the [Greek or Hebrew], the free-grace of God? It is a gracious calling, it is all enamelled and inter-woven ⟨p. 154⟩with free-grace, Si cogitare coeperis O anima mea, quot, & quales sint qui hanc quae tibi data est gratiam consequi non potuerunt; audisti certe quod muliae gentes pertransierunt, quae omnes sine cognitione Dei in interitum sempiternum dilapsae sunt omnibus illis redemptor tuus te praetulit, gratiamque ejus largitus est; & quare hoe? nullam praeter salvatoris Charitatem, invenire poteris Causam; elegit te in omnibus, assumpsit te ex omnibus, amavit te pre omnibus, ut memoriale ejus semper esset apud te*.
5. It is a gracious call, it is the fruit and product of free-grace. That God should call some, and not others; some taken, and others left; one called who is of a more rugged mo•ose disposition, another of acu•er parts, of a sweeter temper, rejected, here is free-gracē: That the poor should be rich in faith, heirs of of a Kingdom, Iam. 25. And the Nobles, and Great ones of the world for the most part reprobated, 1 Cor. 1.26. Not many Noble are called. What is this free and rich grace? Mat. 11.26. Even so Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight. That in the same Sermon one should be effectually wrought upon, another, no more moved then a dead man with the sound of Musick; that one should hear a Spirits voyce in the Word, another not hear it; that one should be softned and moistned wi•h the influences of Heaven; another, like Gideons dry fleece hath no dew upon him; behold here distinguishing grace! The same affliction converts one, hardens another? affliction to one, is as the bruising of Spices, which cast forth a fragrant smel; to the other is as the stamping of Weeds in a Mortar, which are more unfavoury; whence is this, but the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the free-grace of God? It is a gracious calling, it is all enameld and inter-woven ⟨p. 154⟩with free-grace, Si cogitare coeperis O anima mea, quot, & quales sint qui hanc quae tibi data est gratiam consequi non potuerunt; audisti certe quod muliae gentes pertransierunt, quae omnes sine cognitione Dei in interitum sempiternum dilapsae sunt omnibus illis redemptor tuus te praetulit, gratiamque ejus largitus est; & quare hoe? nullam praeter salvatoris Charitatem, invenire poteris Causam; elegit te in omnibus, assumpsit te ex omnibus, amavit te pre omnibus, ut memoriale ejus semper esset apud te*.
- *Austin.
