A call to the unconverted, to turn and live

The works of the Holy Ghost, for us, are these, To indite the holy scriptures, by inspiring and guiding the apostles and sealing the word, by his miraculous gifts and works, and the illuminating and exciting the ordinary ministers of the gospel, and so enabling them and helping them to publish that word; and by the same word illuminating and converting the souls of men. So that, as you could not have been reasonable creatures if the Father had not created you, nor have had any access to God if the Son had not redeemed you, so neither can you have a part of Christ, or be saved, except the Holy Ghost do sanctify yon.

So that, by this time, you may see the several causes of this work: The Father sendeth the Son, the Son redeemeth us, and maketh the promise of grace; the Holy Ghost inditeth and sealeth this gospel; the apostles are the secretaries of the spirit •o write it; the preachers of the gospel to proclaim ••t, and persuade them to open it: and the Holy Ghost doth make their preaching effectual, by opening the hearts of men to entertain it. And all this •o repair the image of God upon the soul, and to set the heart upon God again, and take it off the creature and carnal self to which it is revolted, and so •o turn the current of the life into an heavenly course, which before was earthly; and all this by the entertainment of Christ by faith, who is the physician of the soul.

By this, which I have said, you may see what it is to be wicked, and what it is to be converted; which, I think, will be yet plainer unto you, if I describe them as consisting of their several parts; and •or the first, a wicked man may be known by these three things: