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L366 ST. LUKE.out the least infringement of their liberty : whichthe more weak and diseased it is, resists him so muchthe more, and is healed only by ceasing to resistSect. lY.—T/ie Calling of SL Matthew, Theiiohole need not a Physician,Cloth.Old Vessels,The piece of New" 27. % And after these things he went forth,and saw a publican, named Levi, sitting at the receiptof custom: and he said unto him. Follow me."See here the order of a sinner's salvation :— 1.God's looking upon him denotes hispredestination.2. His command, his vocation. 3. St. Matthew'sobedience shows his justification. 4. His feastrepresents that of the eucharistic communion, andthe heavenly banquet which makes his glorification.The looks of Christ are not unprofitable, and cast onmen by chance; they have their cause in the eternaldesigns of the divine mercy.I have this confidence,O my God, that I am of the number of those uponwhom thou hast, from all eternity, looked with thateye of grace and goodness which decrees salvation,determines the means, and regulates the whole economyof it. Thy present mercies are to me a pledgeof thy eternal mercy." 28. And he left all, rose up, and followed him.29. 5[ And Levi made him a great feast in his ownhouse : and there was a great company of publicans,and of others, that sat down with them.":—There are four marks of a true conversionTo rise up, by quitting the occasions of sin. 2. Tofollow Jesus Christ, by doing good works. 3. To