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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.
CHAP. XII. Two Inferences drawn from the Proposition.
1. IT shows us the necessity of effectual calling; §1without it there is no going to ⟨p. 158⟩Heaven: We must be made meet for the inheritance, Col. 1.12. As God makes Heaven fit for us, so he makes us fit for Heaven; and what gives this idoneity and meetness, but effectual Calling? A man remaining in the filth and rubbish of nature, is no more fit for Heaven, than a dead man is fit to inherit. The High Calling is not a thing arbitrary, or indifferent, but as needful as salvation; yet, alas, how is this one thing needful neglected! Most men, like the people of Israel, wander up and down to gather straw, but mind not evidences of their effectual Calling.
1. IT shews us the necessity of effectual calling; §1without it there is no going to ⟨p. 158⟩Heaven: We must be made meet for the inheritance, Col. 1.12. As God makes Heaven fit for us, so he makes us fit for Heaven; and what gives this idoneity and meetness, but effectual Calling? A man remaining in the filth and rubbish of nature, is no more fit for Heaven, than a dead man is fit to inherit. The High Calling is not a thing arbitrary, or indifferent, but as needful as salvation; yet, alas, how is this one thing needfull neglected! Most men, like the people of Israel, wander up and down to gather straw, but mind not evidences of their effectual Calling.