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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.
3. What must be done that so you may make it sure to your own souls, that you are effectually called by Jesus Christ.
3. What must be done that so you may make it sure to your own soules, that you are effectually called by Jesus Christ.
First, whether it be attainable in this life, that men who are effectually called by Christ, may have a firm and infallible assurance of their own call? And in resolution of this I shall briefly free it from two extremes, both of which are untrue about this Query.
First, whether it be attainable in this life, that men who are effectually called by Christ, may have a firm and infallible assurance of their own call? And in resolution of this I shall briefly free it from two extreams, both of which are untrue about this Query.
The first is that of the Papists, who utterly deny any such thing as assurance about a mans Calling, Justification, or Election by God, and they hold all their followers in suspense, affirming that the most a man can have is a conjectural faith, an hope or conjecture that he shall be saved. And hence it is, that in that Popish Council of Trent they made this Canon, that if any man doth say,1 that he is bound of faith to believe that he is certainly in the number of Gods called ones, or justified ones, or elect ones, let him be Anathema, let him be accursed. That man that would so much as take this assurance to himself, they would hold that man accursed. And the reason why they do it, is, because they hold another error, to wit, falling from grace; which they could not maintain, did they not hold this also: This is the first extreme.