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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. You that urge your outward callings as a reason why you cannot hearken to the call of Christ: take this for answer, that if truth were known, it is not the urgency of your callings, but the obstinacy of your wills, and the sluggishness of your spirits is the cause, you do not give entertainment to the call of Jesus Christ. If it were mens callings urged them, they would not take pleasure in sin; therefore, it is not their callings, but the badness of their hearts: they do not love Christ, and love his waie•, but think it too industrious a work to labour for conversion; and therefore they make this plea. John 5.40. Ye will not come to me that ye might have life: When will is wanting, saith Doctor Preston, any vain excuse will be pretended. When will is wanting to walk in the ways of God, any groundless pretence will be made to excuse their negligence. ⟨p. 69⟩And thus much to take off the second suggestion, that men have callings to follow in the world, and therefore they have no leisure to look after their effectual calling by Jesus Christ.
6. You that urge your outward callings as a reason why you cannot hearken to the cal of Christ: take this for answer, that if truth were known, it is not the urgencie of your callings, but the obstinacie of your wils, and the slugishnesse of your spirits is the cause, you do not give entertainment to the cal of Jesus Christ. If it were mens callings urged them, they would not take pleasure in sin; therefore, it is not their callings, but the badnesse of their hearts: they do not love Christ, and love his waie•, but think it too industrious a work to labour for conversion; and therefore they make this plea. John 5.40. Ye will not come to me that ye might have life: When will is wanting, saith Doctor Preston, any vain excuse wil be pretended. When wil is wanting to walk in the waies of God, any groundlesse pretence wil be made to excuse their negligence. ⟨p. 69⟩And thus much to take off the second suggestion, that men have callings to follow in the world, and therefore they haue no leisure to look after their effectual calling by Jesus Christ.