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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.
Fourthly, God gives his people most strong assurance, when they walk most closely in communion with their God. Great peace shall they have, saith David, that love thy Law; they shall have peace, and great peace, while they walk in love to God and his ways. Keep in communion with your God, and that's the time for God to give you greatest comfort; If ye lash out from God and break his Law, he will break your hearts. When the shepherd hath a Lamb, or a Sheep, that straggles from the fold, it shall meet with a Crook, haply with the bite of a dog. It may be God may catch you with his hook, happily you shall be bitten with a Temptation, and bitten with desertion, if you straggle from his fold; but the more you keep in communion with God, the more likely you are to keep in your comforts; walking with God is the very fuel that kindles the fire of comfort in a Christians breast, that keeps comfort alive. The more you flag in your communion, the more shall you flag in your assurance, and the more shall your comforts die. Communion with your God, it hath two particulars in it. First, in keeping you free from ⟨p. 122⟩sin, Jo•. 11.14, 15. Secondly, in keeping in the exercise of grace, Esa. 32.17. Now, the more you keep out sin, the more you keep in comforts; the more you increase in grace, the more you increase in comforts. Grace and comfort, the one promotes the other; Grace promotes comfort, and comfort heightens you in the increase of grace: Therefore Paul in his salutations puts them both together, 1 Cor. 1.3. And thus having finished this Query, there is only one more, which (God willing) I shall dispatch at this time; And that is
Fourthly, God gives his people most strong assurance, when they walk most closely in communion with their God. Great peace shall they have, saith David, that love thy Law; they shall have peace, and great peace, while they walk in love to God and his wayes. Keep in communion with your God, and that's the time for God to give you greatest comfort; If ye lash out from God and break his Law, he will break your hearts. When the shepherd hath a Lamb, or a Sheep, that straggles from the fold, it shall meet with a Crook, happly with the bite of a dog. It may be God may catch you with his hook, happily you shall be bitten with a Temptation, and bitten with desertion, if you straggle from his fold; but the more you keep in communion with God, the more likely you are to keep in your comforts; walking with God is the very fewel that kindles the fire of comfort in a Christians brest, that keeps comfort alive. The more you flag in your communion, the more shall you flag in your assurance, and the more shall your comforts die. Communion with your God, it hath two particulars in it. First, in keeping you free from