A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 1.10.…

Sixthly, Many men may change their lives, because they come into better company, haply their company is better then in times past,¹ and this may work in them a change in their lives. As we read of Joash, all the while he was in Jehojada's company, he was a well ordered man in his life; but when he was dead, and he came to have wicked men about him, then he showed the wickedness of his heart.

Sixtly, Many men may change their lives, because they come into better company, haply their company is better then in times past,¹ and this may work in them a change in their lives. As we read of Joash, all the while he was in Jehojada's company, he was a well ordered man in his life; but when he was dead, and he came to have wicked men about him, then he shewed the wickedness of his heart.

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7. Lastly, Every change is not an evidence of effectual calling, because there may be a change in the life, proceeding from a wrong principle, and tending to a wrong end: As thus, a man may change his life from a wrong principle; what's that? I will name two wrong principles of a change in unconverted men. As

First, Men may change their lives, because of some present outward affliction that lies upon them in this life, their afflictions may enforce them to change their ways, and not be so bad as in former days,