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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.
Beloved, so I say, men that have drunk draughts of this wine of consolation, and men that are setledly assured, and have had a taste that the Lord is gracious, no man will now say, that the world is better, and the comforts below better. No, the assurance of Gods love should wean a mans heart from all the comforts of the world. As old Jacob said, when he saw his son Joseph in his old age, after he had made many a prayer, and shed many a tear; O Joseph my son is yet alive, I have enough. As was the carriage of Jacob to Joseph, the same should be the carriage of a Christian towards Christ. If he can say, My Joseph, my Jesus is alive in my heart; I having him, have enough; this comfort should ravish his spirit. Paul when he was rapt up into the third heaven, was so transported that he knew not whether he was in the body or no; so are the people of God ravished with heavenly consolations,1 that they mind not these earthly things. It is a speech that Bernard, hath, That to whosoever Jesus Christ once becomes sweet, that he can taste the sweetness of his love, and the sweetness of his mercy, the very sweetness in Christs love will embitter the world unto him.
Beloved, so I say, men that have drunk draughts of this wine of consolation, and men that are setledly assured, and have had a taste that the Lord is gracious, no man will now say, that the world is better, and the comforts below better. No, the assuance of Gods love should wean a mans heart from all the comforts of the world. As old Jacob said, when he saw his sonne Joseph in his old age, after he had made many a prayer, and shed many a tear; O Joseph my sonne is yet alive, I have enough. As was the carriage of Jacob to Joseph, the same should be the carriage of a Christian towards Christ. If he can say, My Joseph, my Jesus is alive in my heart; I having him, have enough; this comfort should ravish his spirit. Paul when he was rapt up into the third heaven, was so transported that he knew not whether he was in the body or no; so are the people of God ravished with heavenly consolations,1 that they minde not these earthly things. It is a speech that Bernard, hath, That to whosoever Jesus Christ once becomes sweet, that he can taste the sweetnesse of his love, and the sweetnesse of his mercy, the very sweetnesse in Christs love will imbitter the world unto him.