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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.
1. Not Free-will. The Pelagians are strenuous asse•ters of Free-will, they tell us, that a man ha•h an innate power to his own conversion; but this Text confutes ⟨p. 177⟩it, our calling is according to Gods purpose, The Scripture plucks up the Weed of Freewill by the roots, Rom. 9.16. It is not of him that willeth. All depends upon the [Greek or Hebrew], the purpose of God. When the Prisoner, is cast at the Bar, there is no saving him unless the King hath a purpose to save him. Gods purpose is his Prerogative Royal.
1. Not Free-will. The Pelagians are strenuous asse•ters of Free-will, they tell us, that a man ha•h an innate power to his own conversion; but this Text confutes ⟨p. 177⟩it, our calling is according to Gods purpose, The Scripture plucks up the VVeed of Freewill by the roots, Rom. 9.16. It is not of him that willeth. All depends upon the 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the purpose of God. VVhen the Prisoner, is cast at the Bar, there is no saving him unless the King hath a purpose to save him. Gods purpose is his Prerogative Royal.
2. If it be Gods purpose that saves, then not merit. Bellarmine holds,1 that good works do expiate sin, and merit Glory; no, the Text saith, We are called according to Gods purpose: and there is a parallel Scripture,