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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.
First, If it be not a stubborn and wilful ignorance. Though you are ignorant, yet if you are willing to learn, and know the ways of God revealed in his Word, such an ignorance will never damn you: But when ignorance comes to be wilful, that a man doth not know, and he will not learn; a man is an ignorant man yet he thinks he knows more then all the Preachers can tell him; this is a sad sign you are not effectually called Hence you read, Prov. 1.22. How long, ye simple ones, will you lov• simplicity, &c? Godly people may be in a state of ignorance but they love it not; therefore, 2 Pet. 3.5. the Scripture tells, us of wicked men, that they are wilfully ignorant. So that if your ignorance have not this bad quality in it, to be a stubborn and wilful ignorance, it may stand with your effectual calling.
First, If it be not a stubborn and wilful ignorance. Though you are ignorant, yet if you are willing to learn, and know the waies of God revealed in his Word, such an ignorance will never damn you: But when ignorance comes to be wilful, that a man doth not know, and he will not learn; a man is an ignorant man yet he thinks he knows more then all the Preachers can tell him; this is a sad sign you are not effectually called Hence you read, Prov. 1.22. How long, ye simple ones, will you lov• simplicity, &c? Godly people may be in a state of ignorancee but they love it not; therefore, 2 Pet. 3.5. the Scripture tells, us of wicked men, that they are wilfully ignorant. So that if your ignorance have not this bad quality in it, to be a stubborn and wilful ignorance, it may stand with your effectual calling.
Secondly, Provided that your ignorance be not a sottish and brutish ignorance; that is, that you do not so lie clouded in a state of darkness, that you are uncapable to discern the goodness of the Word, and uncapable to apprehend any thing that is taught you; that you are not like those,