The vvorldes resurrection, or The generall calling of the Iewes A familiar commentary vpon the eleuenth chapter of Saint Paul to the Romaines, according to the sence of Scripture, and the consent of the most iudicious interpreters, wherein aboue fiftie notable questions are soundly answered, and the particular doctrines, reasons and vses of euery verse, are profitable and plainly deliuered. By Thomas Draxe. Minister of the word of God.

The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

Quèst. Touching the graces of God if they bee neuer taken away, why doth God so often depriue men of them, that formerly had them?

Ans. First▪* 1.1 they are common and temporall gifts, either of nature, policie, or else of illumination and outward profession onely, that are common to Gods children with reprobates, these God doth strip and depriue men of ma∣ny times for their vnthankfulnesse, and to discouer their vnsoundnesse and hypocrisie.

Secondly,* 1.2 because men (who are cōmonly Reprobates) alwayes neglect, contemne, and abuse them, & thus they quench and put out the holy spirit, and what light soeuer was offered vnto them, and whatsoeuer knowledge and grace of God was bestowed vpon them, it dyeth in them by little and little: for God in his iustice taketh his tal∣lent from them, as hee did from Saul and Iudas. But for those peculiar endowments of Gods elect which are linked and chained vnseperably together, such as are predestination,* 1.3 vocation, iustification, and glorification, these are giuen to the Godly in fe•• simple, and are neuer taken away from them.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Deut. 19.27.28 Isa 3.1.2.3 Deut. 32.21
• * 1.2

  Math. 13, 19▪ 25, 2••, ••••.
• * 1.3

  Rom. ••.3••.