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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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Thirdly, Yea but, saith another doubting soul, Peradventure I was never wrought upon, neither by seeing godly people among whom I lived, and observing their example, nor was I wrought upon by reading good books; but I was first wrought upon by hearing such a Minister, that I now see is run into error; or a Minister that is grown loose in his practice, (happily in these present times gone to join with the enemy against the Kingdom) and become a vile liver; and the Minister being bad that wrought upon me, makes me question, whether the work be not an unsound and bad work also, and this gravels many a Christian likewise. To which I answer briefly.
Thirdly, Yea but, saith another doubting soul, Peradventure I was never wrought upon, neither by seeing godly people among whom I lived, and observing their example, nor was I wrought upon by reading good books; but I was first wrought upon by hearing such a Minister, that I now see is run into error; or a Minister that is grown loose in his practice, (hapily in these present times gone to joyn with the enemy against the Kingdom) and become a vile liver; and the Minister being bad that wrought upon me, makes me question, whether the work be not an unsound and bad work also, and this gravels many a Christian likewise. To which I answer briefly.
First, That suppose the Minister were bad that wrought upon thee, yet the badness of the Minister is no just ground of making us suspect our calling. For then we should never be sure of our call. A man may be sure of his own conversion, though a man may not be sure of the conversion of him by whose means he was called.
First, That suppose the Minister were bad that wrought upon thee, yet the badnesse of the Minister is no just ground of making us suspect our calling. For then we should never be sure of our call. A man may be sure of his own conversion, though a man may not be sure of the conversion of him by whose means he was called.