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 ye humble and bide it. Cain's and Judas' names are not written in the sixth command, but they have no due right to his promises but they have to his threatning against murderers. If ye ask if Christ died for you? He answers you with another question. Would ye die for him? Or, are ye dying for love to him? That answers your question. Sinners are like a number of men swiming in the sea, betwixt life and death. Christ and his merits are like a strong boat, and a man holding out both his arms, drawing them in one by one, saying. Give me your hand; and so he presses them in.

Blessed are they that are called. Then all that hear his word are blest. We are sent out to call you and to cry, Our Master. the King's Son, is to be married, come to the feast, and bring all your best clothes with you. But there are many called, who are not called; that calling in Proverbs i. is not here meant, ''I called, and ye refused; nor that in Matth. xx 19. Many are called, but few are chosen''. There is a difference between the inward calling and the outward calling. First. In the persons; none are called but the Bridegroom's friends, who ere come of Christ's own house, and native of kin to him; strangers and bastards to the house get but a word: And from this is that calling that is to the saints a calling by their names, as when God called Abraham, who said, Here am I The friends of the Bridegroom hear a voice upon their hearts, as if God had called then by their names; the rest are called, but they obey not the King. They hear a voice founding in the air a afar off. Speak to a man of inhe. nce is Spain he hears and hears not: