Election is the foundation-cause of our vocation. Such were some of you, but ye are washed'. So that the foundation of vocation is election. Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. The doctrine of repentance is right gospel doctrine.
True faith is always in a heart bruised for sin.
They, therefore, whose hearts were never touched for sin, have no faith. So saving faith always grows in a heart humbled for sin, in a weeping eye and a tearful conscience. A godly man does not choose to sit under a ministry that will not work upon his conscience. When we pray that the Word may meet with our sins. If there is any traitorous lust in our heart, we would have it found out and executed.