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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. A man may be frequently in the company of godly men, yet not be effectually called; and so Demas was a companion with Paul in the Gospel, yet he not called, but embraced the world, and fell away.
1. A man may be frequently in the company of godly men, yet not be effectually called; and so Demas was a companion with Paul in the Gospel, yet he not called, but imbraced the world, and fel away.
2. They may speak well of the people of God. And this John tells us, 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word, or in tongue. This loving in word and tongue, was to speak well of a godly man; this a wicked man may do.
2. They may speak wel of the people of God. And this John tels us, 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word, or in tongue. This loving in word and tongue, was to speak wel of a godly man; this a wicked man may do.
3. They may write Letters of commendation in the behalf of a godly man. And so you read of Pilate's Wife, which the Scripture gives as no evidence of her conversion, Mat. 27.19. She wrote a Letter to her Husband in the morning before he was to arraign Christ, and told him, Have nothing to do with the blood of this just man. Here you see she wrote in the behalf of a good man, of Jesus Christ. And so we read of Claudius ⟨p. 82⟩