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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.
6. That whoever God intends effectually to call, it is Gods ordinary way to call them by the Ministry of his word. 2 Thes. 2.13, 14. Its said there, that they were called through the Sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, to obtain eternal glory by Jesus Christ: they were called by belief of the truth, that is, by believing the word preached, and loving the word preached; faith comes by hearing: faith is the first grace of a Christians Call, and that comes by hearing. Rom. 10.17. so Acts 26.17, 18. When Christ would call and convert the Gentiles, he doth it not immediately, but he useth the Ministry of Paul: Go thou, teach the Gentiles, and bring them from darkness to light, and from the ⟨p. 48⟩power of Satan unt• God. God doth it still by the preaching of his word. Now this is a sad word to three sorts of men. First, its a sad word to them that never sat under the powerful preaching of the word, they are out of Gods ordinary way of being saved.
6. That whoever God intends effectually to call, it is Gods ordinary way to call them by the Ministry of his word. 2 Thes. 2.13, 14. Its said there, that they were called through the Sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth, to obtain eternal glory by Jesus Christ: they were called by belief of the truth, that is, by believing the word preacht, and loving the word preacht; faith comes by hearing: faith is the first grace of a Christians Call, and that comes by hearing. Rom. 10.17. so Acts 26.17, 18. When Christ would call and convert the Gentiles, he doth it not immediatly, but he useth the Ministry of Paul: Go thou, teach the Gentiles, and bring them from darkness to light, and from the ⟨p. 48⟩