Vox Dei & hominis.: God's call from heaven ecchoed [sic] by mans answer from earth. Or a survey of effectual calling. In the [brace] explication of its nature. Distribution of it into its parts. Illustration of it by its properties. Confirmation of it by reasons. Application of it by uses. Being the substance of several sermons delivered to the people of Heveningham, in Suffolk. / By J. Votier, minister of the gospel.

CHAP. V. IV. What is done in this effectual calling, or what parts are wrought upon?

THe whole Man is altered, but principally these two Cardinal parts, or faculties, which are as King and Queen to the rest.

• 1. The wit▪ Or 1. The Head.
• 2. The will. Or 2. The Heart.

1. The Head is changed: before it was an [S. 1] Head of Brasse, now an Head of Gold; before it was night, now it is day with it, now the bright morning Star appeareth in the Horizon of the Soul: The ruddy morning is come and the Sun putteth forth his head. Ephes. 5. 8. Ye were sometimes darknesse; but now are ye Light in the Lord. So dark is the Soul while in the Womb of nature, that it is darknesse it self in the abstract; a greater darknesse than that which God sent as a sore Judgement upon the Egyptians, for that was felt: but sinful Souls feel not, nor perceive this darknesse. Ephes. 4. 18. Their understanding is darkned, and there is ignorance and blindnesse in them: but now God makes a Window in the Soul, and let's in enlightening beames, that it seeth into the my∣steries of Iniquity and Godlinesse, whereof it had no knowledge before: Now it knows some∣thing of it self of a Saviour, which it under∣stood not before; it is in a new world, in a Region of Light even to admiration: the Scales are fallen from it's eyes. Col. 3. 10. And have

put on the new Man, which is renewed in know∣ledge: In renovation there is illumination; now is the Soul a Spiritual Scholler, whereas before it was a very ignoramus in the Spiritual understanding of the things of God, though it might have parts and common knowledge e∣nough.

2. The Will and Heart is changed; the for∣mer [S. 2] is not sufficient unlesse seconded by this: The Lord goeth down from the upper story of the Head into the Heart, the Center of the whole man; and refineth, and purgeth that: it was full of Trash and Vanity, like a Childs Pocket; but the Lord emptieth it of that, and maketh it like a Cabinet full of precious and costly Jewels; before it was full of Weeds and Nettles; but the Lord taketh away them, and soweth the Seeds of grace, and planteth the Roots of true goodnesse there: And this Do∣ctor Ames calleth the passive reception of Christ. Ephes. 2. 5. Even when we were dead in Sins hath he quickened us together with Christ. The Will and Heart of man is a Rebellious Cati∣line, but now it is made a loving Friend, and an obedient Subject: now it is endued with principles of true Godlinesse, and hath the image of God impressed upon it in the confor∣mity thereof to his mind: It is now a Paradise full of Trees of the Lords own Planting: The Will now stands right for God, and looketh Heavenward.

Now it hath that new Heart which God pro∣miseth to give. Ezek. 36. 26. A new Heart also will I give you, and a new Spirit will I put with∣in

you, and will take away the stony Heart out of your Flesh, &c. O precious Heart, worth more than the Treasures of both the Indies: the comparison falls too short; the Lord takes and gives, but doth not give and take: For this Heart shall never be lost: this new Heart is a stock of saving and Sanctifying grace; the Fountain, Spring, Source, Habits, from whence come, and flow the Acts, and streames of grace, and Piety: now doth God lay the principle, bottom, and Foundation of the after superstru∣cture of Pious Actings: now doth the Lord bring the Heart to his own bent, and cause it to move towards himself, as the Center thereof; the Lord hath made the Heart a Trea∣sure, or Ware-house, from whence good things are brought forth.

Notes

• Revel. 2. 28.
• Exod. 10. 21.
• Ʋtraque cognitio, Dei scili∣cet & tui tibi est ne∣cessaria ad salu∣tem. Bern. Sup. Can∣tic.
• Med. 1. lib. 26. cap. 21. thes.
• Mat. 12. 35.