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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.
But now men that have false persuasions, their persuasions can never bear up the heart under a trouble, and at a loss, and a• a pinch; because it is not a saving and inward comfort, it can never create inward peace. The comforts of wicked men when they come to suffer, they are like cloth that is ill woven. Cloth that is well made, let a man be in a shower of rain, it will never shrink; but ill woven cloth, let it be but in a show•e, it shrinks presently: It is so with mens comforts; Bring comforts well wrought into a shower of trouble, and that man will not shrink under his trouble; but bring an ill wrought & unsound assurance, and that will shrink, and fail, and pull in, and will not bear up the heart under the sorrows and sufferings he may meet withal. Presuming Pindleton, that boasted his fat flesh should fry in the fire before he would forsake his Religion; when he came to the trial, flagged presently.
But now men that have false perswasions, their perswasions can never bear up the heart under a trouble, and at a losse, and a• a pinch; because it is not a saving and inward comfort, it can never create inward peace. The co•forts of wicked men when they come to suffer, they are like cloth that is ill woven. Cloth that is well made, let a man be in a showre of rain, it will never shrink; but ill woven cloth, let it be but in a show•e, it shrinks presently: It is so with mens comforts; Bring comforts wel wrought into a showre of tr•uble, and that man will not shrink under his trouble; but bring an ill wrought & unsound assurance, and that will shrink, and fail, and pull in, and will not bear up the heart under the sorrows and sufferings he may meet withall. Presuming Pindleton, that boasted his fat flesh should fry in the fire before he would forsake his Relgion; when he came to the trial, flagged presently.
Fifthly, Sound assurance, wherever it is, makes the heart more humble towards God and man, and makes men more vile in their own eyes.