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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.
Thirdly, In case your ignorance be not a fundamental ignorance, I mean such an ignorance, as not to know those necessary and fundamental points in the Word, that must be known, if ever you be saved; as about Jesus Christ and salvation, and justification by his blood, and faith in his Na•e, &c. though you may be ignorant about circumstantials, yet if it be not in fundamentals your ignorance may be consistent with effectual calling. But now
Thirdly, If a godly man be satisfied in these two points, and thinks happily I may have the first concomitant to call upon God, and so evidence my effectual call; and then happily the second may not be wanting in me, that I do not lie under the state of a wilful sottish & fundamental ignorance. But alas saith he, I want a third concomitant that accompanies effectually calling, and that is; I find in the Word, that they that are effectually called, they are brought into an Obediential frame of heart to all the ways of God, that what ever God commands them to do, their hearts can readily obey, and this I find, Rom. 1.5.6. God hath called them by his grace unto the obedience of faith. Now alas, saith a poor soul I find a defect in this concomitant likewise, I cannot discern that I am called to an obedience flowing from faith as its principle, I cannot find this frame of heart to be in me, and therefore I doubt of my effectual calling. This I shall labour to take off likewise.
Thirdly, If a godly man be satisfied in these two points, and thinks happily I may have the first concomitant to call upon God, and so evidence my effectual call; and then happily the second may not be wanting in me, that I do not lie under the state of a wilful sottish & fundamental ignorance. But alas saith he, I want a third concomitant that accompanies effectually calling, and that is; I finde in the Word, that they that are effectually called, they are brought into an Obediential frame of heart to all the wayes of God, that what ever God commands them to do, their hearts can readily obey, and this I finde,