William Whately (1583–1639) on the Will of God

Whately, while speaking to the unregenerate, said:

I call your own souls to witness, and that God, in whose name, and those angels, in whose presence I have spoken these things to you, that God desires not your death; he would have you saved; he offers salvation; he would have you renewed, and he offers the Spirit of renovation; and if you want it, it is only, merely, wholly, because you regard it not, and because you will not take his directions in seeking it.

O thou therefore that are unregenerate, see thine unregeneracie; desire to be regenerate; call upon God for his Spirit of Grace to regenerate thee; ponder upon his Law and his Gospel, the seed of regeneration. Hearken to his voice, speaking in his messengers; and meditate on what thou shalt hear from them, and thou shalt be regenerate.

William Whately, The New Birth: or, A Treatise of Regeneration (London: Printed by the assignes of Ioane Man and Benjamin Fisher, 1635), 131–132. I have modernized some of the English.

Last of all, the Lord of Heaven doth most justly punish a number of men, that live within the visible Church, by giving them over to the devil, and their own hollow hearts, to be beguiled and deceived with outward appearances of goodness, so to avenge himself upon their careless or willful contempt, or neglect of the offers of grace made unto them: for where the doctrine of salvation by Jesus Christ is in any degree made manifest; there doth God proffer the Spirit of grace withal, and is ready for his part to bestow it.

William Whately, God’s Husbandry: The First Part (London: Imprinted by Bernard Alsop for Thomas Man, 1622), 9. He also said they were “offers of love made to them” (Ibid., “The Second Part,” 6, 12).

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