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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.
When thou dost intermit walking with God and dost launch forth into a gulf and sea of lusts, and yet canst still say thou art the same in thy comforts, and the same in thy persuasions; it is an argument all thy comforts are but false, and thy evidence unsound.
When thou dost intermit walking with God and dost lanch forth into a gulph and sea of lusts, and yet canst still say thou art the same in thy comforts, and the same in thy perswasions; it is an argument all thy comforts are but false, and thy evidence unsound.
Fourthly, Real assurance of your estate, it doth bear up the soul under the greatest outward sorrow and sufferings that it can meet with in this world. Heb. 10:34. Th•y suffered joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves that they had in heaven a better and more enduring substance. What made them so to rejoice to see their houses plundered before them, their estates taken from them, but this, they knew in their own selves, and had assurance in their own hearts that Christ was theirs, and heaven was theirs; and this made them suffer joyfully the spoiling of their goods. So Psal. 119.50: This is my comfort in affliction, that thy word doth quicken me: That is, this bears up my heart when I am afflicted, that I have a word to build upon, that I have assurance, I have interest in a promise to build upon; this quickens and bears me up under my sorrows. So Psal. 119.81. My spirit had fainted within me, only that I hoped in thy word. That is, I had hope and confidence ⟨p. 127⟩built upon thy Word, and that kept me from fears, and fainting, and discouragement under my affliction. So Isa. 33.24