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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.
1. If your hearing the word, be but a bare hearing, and not a hearing with practice; if you have not practice joined with what you hear; and know, your thus hearing the word with delight, is no evidence of your effectual calling. Ezek. 33.31. They come before thee as my people cometh, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, as one that can play well upon an instrument of music. Here the Lord sets forth with what delight they heard Ezekiel preach; they heard him as a man that had a very lovely voice, and they heard him as a man that played upon an Instrument of Music; much delight they took in hearing. Yet, saith God, they hear thy words, but do them not. Beloved, though you take as much delight in hearing a Sermon, as to hear the most melodious music a cunning hand can make; yet if you barely hear with delight, not joining practice with your hearing; this is no evidence of effectual calling. Hence it is James saith, James 1.21. Be not hearers of the word only, but doers also, lest you deceive your own souls. Implying, that you will deceive your souls ⟨p. 78⟩•bout effectual calling, if you only hear, and do not do. This was the fault of the stony ground, Matth. 13.20.
1. If your hearing the word, be but a bare hearing, and not a hearing with practice; if you have not practice joyned with what you hear; and know, your thus hearing the word with delight, is no evidence of your effectual calling. Ezek. 33.31. They come before thee as my people cometh, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, as one that can play well upon an instrument of musick. Here the Lord sets forth with what delight they heard Ezekiel preach; they heard him as a man that had a very lovely voice, and they heard him as a man that played upon an Instrument of Musick; much delight they took in hearing. Yet, saith God, they hear thy words, but do th•m not. Beloved, though you take as much delight in hearing a Sermon, as to hear the most melodious musick a cunning hand can make; yet if you barely hear with delight, not joyning practice with your hearing; this is no evidence of effectual calling. Hence it is James saith,