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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.
1Yea, but you will urge further, Though this be not an Argument of our effectual calling, yet we can go one step higher; ⟨p. 81⟩We do not only delight to hear the word, but we love the godly who are effectually called to grace and glory; and if we love them, we hope it is argument that we also are called: and they urge that Scripture for it, We know that we are translated from death to Life, if we love the Brethren, 1 Joh. 3.14.
1Yea, but you wil urge further, Though this be not an Argument of our effectual calling, yet we can goe one step higher; ⟨p. 81⟩We doe not onely delight to hear the word, but we love the godly who are effectually called to grace and glory; and if we love them, we hope it is argument that we also are called: and they urge that Scripture for it, We know that we are translated from death to Life, if we love the Brethren, 1 Joh. 3.14.
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Now, to speak to this: I answer, It is clear in Scripture, that every kind of love to the people of God, is no Argument of effectual calling, but there may be a feigned and a counterfeit love, as well as any other grace. Hence the Apostle presses, Rom. 12.9. Let your love be without dissimulation; importing, that men may dissemble their love as well as any grace else.