The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

USE. Let this persuade all Sorts of Persons, young and old, one and another, to whom the Gospel is sent, to come unto Jesus Christ; for those that God calls should come: But the Lord calls (at least outwardly) all Sorts of Persons; nay every individual Person to come in: Mark 16.15, 16. Paul told the stout Jailer, If thou believest thou shalt be saved: And look as the Law speaks particularly to every Man, Thou shalt have no other Gods, &c. so doth the Gospel also, Rom. 10.9. that so every Man might look upon himself as spoken to in particular. And indeed if there were not such a particular Call, then Men should not Sin by refusing the Gospel, nor should the Lord be angry for so doing, but their Sin and Condemnation is great that so do, John 3.19. And the Lord is more wroth for this Sin than any other, Psal. 2.12. Luke 14.18. Heb. 3.10, 11, 19. In one Word, either the Lord would have thee (whoever thou art) to receive Christ, or to reject, and so despise Christ; and if the Lord would have you reject him, he would then have you sin, and continue in it, which cannot stand either with the Honour of God's Holiness, or of his rich Grace; I shall therefore open two Things,

USE. Let this perswade all Sorts of Persons, young and old, one and another, to whom the Gospel is sent, to come unto Jesus Christ; for those that God calls should come: But the Lord calls (at least outwardly) all Sorts of Persons; nay every individual Person to come in: Mark 16.15, 16. Paul told the stout Jaylor, If thou believest thou shalt be saved: And look as the Law speaks particularly to every Man, Thou shalt have no other Gods, &c. so doth the Gospel also, Rom. 10.9. that so every Man might look upon himself as spoken to in particular. And indeed if there were not such a particular Call, then Men should not Sin by refusing the Gospel, nor should the Lord be angry for so doing, but their Sin and Condemnation is great that so do,