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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
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4. That they who are most sensible of their own vileness, and see the most want and necessity of Jesus Christ, they of all people are most likely to be called by him. When Christ rejects civil honest men, and self-conceited men, and morally good men, and they are no way likely to be called; yet those men that are sensible of their wickedness, and see their want of Jesus Christ, they are of all Men most likely to be called. Matth. 9.13. I came not to call the righteous; but whom? but sinners to repentance. All men are sinners, but he means such as see their sin, and see their need of Christ to pardon and subdue sin in them, for so the words import: The whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick: They that are sick of sin, and see their infirmities, they are most likely to be called by Jesus Christ. And therefore this is most comfortable to you, all you that are drooping Christians, that hang down your heads under the sense of sin, that see sin to be exceeding sinful; this is the end for which Christ came into the world, to call you to glory.
4. That they who are most sensible of their own vilenesse, and see the most want and necessitie of Jesus Christ, they of all people are most likely to be called by him. When Christ rejects civil honest men, and self-conceited men, and morally good men, and they are no way likely to be called; yet those men that are sensible of their wickedness, and see their want of Jesus Christ, they are of all Men most likely to be called. Matth. 9.13. I came not to call the righteous; but whom? but sinners to repentance. All men are sinners, but he means such as see their sin, and see their need of Christ to pardon and subdue sin in them, for so the words import: The whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick: They that are sick of sinne, and see their infirmities, they are most likely to be called by Jesus Christ. And therefore this is most comfortable to you, all you that are drooping Christians, that hang down your heads under the sense of sin, that see sin to be exceeding sinful; this is the end for which Christ came into the world, to cal you to glorie.