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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
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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⟩Lysias, that he wrote a Letter in the behalf of Paul to Felix the Governor: Here were great acts of love, yet these no evidence of their effectual calling. Nay,
3. They may write Letters of commendation in the behalf of a godly man. And so you read of Pilat'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⟩Lysias, that he wrote a Letter in the behalfe of Paul to Felix the Governour: Here were great acts of love, yet these no evidence of their effectual calling. Nay,
4. They may think nothing too much to give to good men, yet not be called. And so did the Galatians, whose calling Paul questions, Gal 4.15. They would pull out their own eyes, and not think them too dear for Paul: Yet at length how cold they did grow, and count Paul their enemy, for telling them the truth.
4. They may think nothing too much to give to good men, yet not be called. And so did the Galathians, whose calling Paul questions, Gal 4.15. They would pull out their own eyes, and not think them too dear for Paul: Yet at length how cold they did grow, and count Paul their enemy, for telling them the truth.