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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, 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, Rom. 1.5.6. God hath called them by his grace unto the obedience of faith. Now alas, saith a poore soul I finde a defect in this concomitant likewise, I cannot discern that I am called to an obedience flowing from faith as its principle, I cannot finde this frame of heart to be in me, and therefore I doubt of my effectual calling. This I shall labour to take off likewise.
First, When I say that obedience is a concomitant that will accompany one effectually called, I do not say nor intend it of obedience in the actings of it, but of obediential frame of spirit in the purposes of it. Many men may be effectually called, when they may not always live in the acting of obedience to Christ, but every man effectually called hath an obedient frame of heart; that is, he hath purposes & intentions and resolutions to obey God, though he cannot act what he would do; he hath obedience in the habit, and obedience