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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.
In the handling of which, I have gone over several particulars: I now come to lay down some Propositions or Conclusions about Effectual Calling, and I shall name twenty in all.
In the handling of which, I have gone over several particulars: I now come to lay down some Propositions or Conclusions about Effectuall Calling, and I shall name twenty in all.
First, Ten sad Conclusions to all those men who are not effectually called.
First, Ten sad Conclusions to all those men who are not effectully called.
Secondly, Ten consolatory conclusions to all those men that are effectually called by Jesus Christ; and mixing conclusions procuring terror to the wicked, and such as procure comfort to the godly; one tempered with the other may be good to both. I begin with the first.
1. The first sad Conclusion I shall lay down is this: That there are many men in the world, that are called outwardly by the word unto a profession of Christ, that are not called effectually by the spirit to a possession of Christ. My meaning is this: There are many men have the word of God working much upon them, to the changing of their lives, altering there course, and new moulding of them into an external profession, that yet notwithstanding all this never had saving grace wrought upon their hearts, which is effectual calling: Many are called, but few are chosen, saith Christ,