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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.
SERMON I.
2 Pet. 1.10. Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure.
TO give you an account why I pitched upon these words, it is briefly thus: Having spent seventeen Sermons in treating of the glory of Heaven for the Elect, and of the torments of Hell for the Reprobate; I deemed it most meet to shut up those two Doctrines in the prosecution of this Subject, of the Assurance of our Election and Vocation, that so if this Doctrine be well improved, you may have establishment in your own hearts, that you are freed from the torments of the damned, and may be confident you shall be stated into the Glory of Heaven, which God hath provided for all his Saints. And to the end you might have assurance, that you shall be freed from the one, and shall enjoy the other; you must make it your work according to the words of my Text, to make your calling and election sure: Make but that sure, and you are sure of heaven. This is the reason why I pitched upon this subject: And it is my care in preaching the Word, not to choose those Texts that are most for my ease in study, but for your profit in hearing; that so one Subject might back another, and one Subject might strengthen another, and being put together, might more serve for your edification and knowledge.
TO give you an account why I pitch'd upon these words, it is briefly thus: Having spent seventeen Sermons in treating of the glory of Heaven for the Elect, and of the torments of Hell for the Reprobate; I deem'd it most meet to shut up those two Doctrines in the prosecution of this Subject, of the Assurance of our Election and Vocation, that so if this Doctrine be well improved, you may have establishment in your own hearts, that you are freed from the torments of the damned, and may be confident you shal be stated into the Glory of Heaven, which God hath provided for all his Saints. And to the end you might have assurance, that you shall be freed from the one, and shall enjoy the other; you must make it your work according to the words of my Text, to make your calling and election sure: Make but that sure, and you are sure of heaven. This is the reason why I pitch'd upon this subject: And it is my care in preaching the Word, not to chuse those Texts that are most for my ease in study, but for your profit in hearing; that so one Subject might back another, and one Subject might strengthen another, and being put together, might more serve for your edification and knowledge.