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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, you are to manage and use your assurance with tenderness of conscience against sin. Assured Christians should be tender-conscienced Christians. Psal. 85.8. God will speak peace to his people; but mark the duty: they must not turn again unto folly. They must not •un again into sin, they must be tender of sin, and then God will speak peace to his people. Sin (as I once told you) will be like wind in the bowels of the earth. Philosophers say, Earthquakes and ruptures are occasioned by wind got into the bowels and caverns of the earth, which having no place for vent, it overturns Mountains and Buildings: Beloved, sin in the heart will do the like; it will make the heart quake and tremble if it be there; ⟨p. 137⟩it will prove the grave of thy comforts, and the resurrection of thy fears. Therefore Christians that are assured, they must take he•d of sin; if they would keep their comforts, they must keep their hearts that sin get not into their consciences. Beloved, they that are assured Christians, they know how difficultly they did attain this assurance, and they know how sweetly they enjoy this assurance, and that will make them very tender, that they do not lose a thing so hardly gotten and sweetly enjoyed for a trivial lust; that thy lose not their former evidences, and revive former terrors.
Fourthly, you are to manage and use your assurance with tenderness of conscience against sin. Assured Christians should be tender-conscienced Christians. Psal. 85.8. God will speak peace to his people; but mark the duty: they must not turn again unto folly. They must not •un again into sin, they must be tender of sin, and then God will speak peace to his people. Sin (as I once told you) will be like winde in the bowels of the earth. Philosophers say, E•rthquakes and ruptures are occasioned by winde got into the bowels and cavernes of the earth, which having no place for vent, it overturnes Mountains and Buildings: Beloved, sin in the heart will do the like; it will make the heart quake and tremble if it be there; ⟨p. 137⟩