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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.
Thus I have opened the things most material, giving you the sense of the words. The whole Verse is made up of two parts.
First, Here is a main duty enjoined in these words, Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.
First, Here is a main duty enjoyned in these words, Give diligence to make your calling and election sure.
Secondly, Here is a strong inducement to enforce you to this duty; and that in the last words, If you do these things you shall never fall.
Secondly, Here is a strong inducement to inforce you to this duty; and that in the last words, If you do these things you shall never fall.
In the duty enjoined there are several things observable: 1. The matter of the duty: To make sure your election and calling. 2. The manner how you must set about this duty; and that is with diligence: Give diligence. 3. The motive to draw you to it, in the word Wherefore. 4. Here is the comparison between this duty and all other duties; Wherefore the rather: do this rather then all other things in the world. And