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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.
Secondly, You must manage your assurance with a high valuation of the comforts of God in you. A man that hath received a benefit, if he do not value it, it is a provocation to the man that gave it, either to repent of his gift, or take it away. David when he had assurance, mark how he values it: Psal. 63.3. Thy loving kindness is better then life. He valued the comforts of his God, and the shinings of Gods countenance better then life. And Psal. 4.6. Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me, and that shall more glad me, then when my corn and wine and oil increaseth. David would more value the comforts of ⟨p. 135⟩Gods Spirit, then any other comfort in the world. Assured Christians, that use assurance rightly, they must put a high valuation and worth upon it. And the reason is, Because you will not then easily part with your assurance for a base and beggarly lust, and for a fruitless sin, if once you know the value and worth of it.
Secondly, You must manage your assurance with a high valuation of the comforts of God in you. A man that hath received a benefit, if he do not value it, it is a provocation to the man that gave it, either to repent of his gift, or take it away. David when he had assurance, mark how he values it: Psal. 63.3. Thy loving kindness is better then life. He valued the comforts of his God, and the shinings of Gods countenance better then life. And Psal. 4.6. Lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon me, and that shall more glad me, then when my corn and wine and oile increaseth. David would more value the comforts of ⟨p. 135⟩Gods Spirit, then any other comfort in the world. Assured Christians, that use assurance rightly, they must put a high valuation and worth upon it. And the reason is, Because you will not then easily part with your assurance for a base and beggerly lust, and for a fruitlesse sin, if once you know the value and worth of it.