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 the reprobate hear of God's calling as if vo were speaking to him of playing at the football, or some trifle: bit speak to a man of his own inheritance, and how he shall be lord of all things, O that goes near his heart! Secondly, The inward calling goes foot for foot with the decree of election Rom viii. 30. Whom he did predestinate, them be also called. The inward calling is more than a word, it is a word with an arrow shot at the heart, or stroke in the soul, that it must wield to Christ and be led captive at his will. John x. 16. Other sheep I have, them also I must bring in: I must have the cost what it will. If they be unwilling they shall be made willing. Indeed the wicked run away with one of Christ's arrows sticking in them like a wild beast with & dart, but if it is shot with Christs full strength, it goes to the bone; otherways it but draws the blood, makes a hole in the skin, and the arrow sails out, and the wound closes again: but it is the Mediator's arrow that John speaks of in Rev. xvi. There is a grip called the Mediator's grip. John xii. 32. I when I am lifted up on the cross will draw all men after me. No man can resist, if once he get a blow and an wound in his soul, with one of Christ's arrows: So Paul was not called to this supper till he was blind, and had fasted three days. So in Zech xii. 10. They shall look on him whom they have pierced, end shall mourn as one but mourneth for his only son. These that are called to the marriage-supper are blest for ever; they are promised away and spoken for in marriage; and when the contract is subscribed, and the woman gives her oath hand and promise to her husband, and when she is hand fastened before God to