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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.
2. That they who are called outwardly by the preaching of the word to a profession Christ, and yet not called inwardly by the spirit, they shall endure greater damnation, and greater torments in hell, then those that never heard a word of Jesus Christ. Matth. 8.12. Many shall come saith Christ, from the East and from the West, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in the Kingdom of Heaven: and what then? but the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into utter darkness, where shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of Teeth. Now, who are meant here by the children of the kingdom? not those that have heaven prepared for them; but the professing Jews, who are called the children of the kingdom, because they enjoyed a greater, and clearer, and fuller measure of the things of God, which showed them the way to the kingdom of heaven, then other men did. And when Christ calls them the children of the kingdom, he calls the heathen the children of the world. Now, many of the children of the kingdom shall be cast into utter darkness: If there be any more dismal place then other, it shall be for the children of the kingdom; those that have been as it were nursed up under Gods elbow by ordinances; the children of the kingdom, they shall have a more dismal portion, and dismal room in hell then other men shall have, that never enjoyed the ordinances of Jesus Christ. And O what a sad word is this to you that live where ordinances do most abound, that you may be called the children of the kingdom, and yet you to be thrust into utter darkness!
2. That they who are called outwardly by the preaching of the word to a profession Christ, and yet not called inwardly by the spirit, they shall endure greater damnation, and greater torments in hell, then those that never heard a word of Jesus Christ. Matth. 8.12. Many shall come saith Ch•ist, from the East and from the West, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaak, and Jacob, in the Kingdome of Heaven: and what then? but the children of the Kingdome shall be cast out into utter darkness, where shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of Teeth. Now, who are meant here by the children of the kingdome? not those that have heaven prepared for them; but the professing Jewes, who are called the children of the kingdome, because they enjoyed a greater, and clearer, and fuller measure of the things of God, which shewed them the way to the kingdome of heaven, then other men did. And when Christ calls them the children of the kingdome, he calls the heathen the children of the world. Now, many of the children of the kingdome shal be cast into utter darknesse: If there be any more dismal place then other, it shall be for the children of the kingdome; those that have been as it were nursed up under Gods elbow by ordinances; the children of the kingdome, they shall have a more dismal portion, and dismal room in hell then other men shall have, that never enjoyed the ordinances of Jesus Christ. And O what a sad word is this to you that live where ordinances do most abound, that you may be called the children of the kingdome, and yet you to be thrust into utter darknesse!