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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.
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. 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word and in tongue only, but in deed and in truth. So 1 Pet: 1.22: Let there be unfeigned love to the Brethren: intimating that there may be a feigned and false love. So that every kind of love is no evidence of effectual calling. And this I shall make out by this demonstration; because there are several acts or expressions of love, that men who are not effectually called, may show to be godly men. Now if a man uncalled, may show many expressions and acts of love to a man converted, then mere showing love to a godly man, is no Argument of your effectual calling. I shall reduce what I have to say unto six heads. As,
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 wel 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 wel as any grace else. 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word and in tongue onely, but in deed and in truth. So 1 Pet: 1.22: Let there be unfeigned love to the Brethren: intimating that there may be a feigned and false love. So that every kind of love is no evidence of effectual calling. And this I shal make out by this demonstration; because there are several acts or expressions of love, that men who are not effectually called, may shew to be godly men. Now if a man uncalled, may shew many expressions and acts of love to a man converted, then meer shewing love to a godly man, is no Argument of your effectual calling. I shal reduce what I have to say unto six heads. As,