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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.
1Is it so then that Assurance is attainable in this life? Then how much too blame are our Adversaries the Papists, who hold their followers in suspense, that they must live without the assurance of their own estate, that their souls must hang in fears and doubts all their days, that the most they can have is only a conjecture: Oh into what a gulf of discomforts do they plunge them! Beloved, the Lord in the Book of Deuteronomy, chap. 29. did pronounce it as a curse, that their lives should hang in suspense, it's a greater curse that mens souls should hang in suspense, that men shall not know whether they shall be save• or damned, it's a hell on this side hell; and therefore they are much to be blamed, that hold their followers in hand with a peradventure th•y shall be saved, ⟨p. 93⟩peradventure not; when the Scripture is so clear in this thing.
1Is it so then that Assurance is attainable in this life? Then how much too blame are our Adversaries the Papists, who hold their followers in suspense, that they must live without the assurance of their own estate, that their soules must hang in fears and doubts all their dayes, that the most they can have is only a conjecture: Oh into what a gulph of discomfo•ts do they plunge them! Beloved, the Lord in the Book of Deuteronomy, chap. 29. did pronounce it as a curse, that their lives should hang in suspense, it's a greater curse that mens souls should hang in suspense, that men shall not know whether they shall be save• or damned, it's a hell on this side hell; and therefore they are much to be blamed, that hold their followers in hand with a peradventure th•y shall be saved, ⟨p. 93⟩peradventure not; when the Scripture is so clear in this thing.