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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.
1. A man effectually called, he is called from ignorance to knowledge, 1 Pet. 2.9. You are called from darkness into marvellous light. Now should not this make you magnify mercy, that you that lay in your sins uncalled, as in a dungeon of darkness, now God should call you into a lightsome and pleasurable palace? thy mind was a fair builded house without windows; or if any, but wooden windows that would let in no light: now God hath opened these shuts, and let in the Sun of righteousness to shine upon thy soul; and brought thee from this dungeon of darkness in thy soul, and given thee the light of his knowledge.
1. A man effectually called, he is called from ignorance to knowledge, 1 Pet. 2.9. You are called from darknesse into marvellous light. Now should not this make you magnifie mercy, that you that lay in your sins uncalled, as in a dungeon of darknesse, now God should call you into a lightsome and pleasurable palace? thy minde was a faire builded house without windowes; or if any, but woodden windowes that would let in no light: now God hath opened these shuts, and let in the Sun of righteousnesse to shine upon thy soul; and brought thee from this dungeon of darknesse in thy soul, and given thee the light of his knowledge.
2. You are called from a course of sin to a course of holiness: Before your calling you were the Devils Drudges, and did his work at will; the Devil (in Pauls language to Timothy) had you Captive at his pleasure; but when God calls you, he takes you from under the dominion and reign of sin; and brings you into a course of holiness, 1 Thes. 4.7. You are called, not unto uncleanness, but unto holiness, 2 Pet. 1.3. He hath called us to glory and virtue. Before calling, thou wert the receptacle or common shore of all filth and uncleanness; when called, thou art swept with the besom of sanctification; yea beautified and adorned as a pleasant palace for thy God to delight in. And this should cause you much to magnify grace, that you are brought from being the Devils drudges, to be Gods freemen; from being the Devils slaves, to be Gods servants; from being the Devils taskeman, to pay thee thy wages in hell, to be Gods workman, for which he will give thee thy reward in heaven.