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A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10.…
A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10. Wherein a Christian may discern, whether yet he be effectually called and elected. And what course he ought to take that he may attain the assurance thereof. Preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury, London.A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10. Wherein a Christian may discern, whether yet he be effectually called and elected. And what course he ought to take that he may attain the assurance thereof. Preached by that faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury, London.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1655
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now this call from darkness to light hath two branches: 1. A man shall have more Light, to have more acquaintance with, and more clearness in the mysteries of Jesus Christ: And 2. more Light to know the sinfulness of himself.
Now this call from darkness to light hath two branches: 1. A man shal have more Light, to have more acquaintance with, and more clearness in the mysteries of Jesus Christ: And 2. more Light to know the sinfulness of himself.
First, He shall have more Light to know the mysteries of Jesus Christ: And hence it is that Paul tells us, Gal. 1.16. It pleased God to call me by his grace, and to reveal his Son in me; implying, that where God by his grace doth call a sinner, he doth reveal his Son unto him. Wherefore, Beloved, if Jesus Christ be not made known to your souls, if you have no competent measure of the knowledge of Christ; you may be under this conviction, that you are not yet called by Jesus Christ. Nay further, he doth not only call you unto this Light, to manifest Jesus Christ to you in some dim way; but you shall have a clear light: 2 Cor. 4.6. For G•d who commanded light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts (not in a dim, but shining light) to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ: that is, you have a clear light to know God in the face of Christ; you cannot know God in himself, but in the person of Christ you shall have light to know him. This therefore is the first Branch, That God will put a light into thy soul, whereby thou shalt have a clear knowledge of the things appertaining to Jesus Christ.
First, He shal have more Light to know the mysteries of Jesus Christ: And hence it is that Paul tels us, Gal. 1.16. It pleased God to call me by his grace, and to reveal his Son in me; implying, that where God by his grace doth call a sinner, he doth reveal his Son unto him. Wherefore, Beloved, if Jesus Christ be not made known to your soules, if you have no competent measure of the knowledge of Christ; you may be under this conviction, that you are not yet called by Jesus Christ. Nay further, he doth not only call you unto this Light, to manifest Jesus Christ to you in some dim way; but you shal have a clear light: