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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.
First, In case you would do this, improve your graces. The more you increase in grace, the more you will grow in comfort. Grace and comfort, they are two Twins, that the more one grows, the better the other thrives. Hence you ⟨p. 147⟩read, that in the salutation of every Epistle, the Apostle puts both together, Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1.3. There the Apostle makes the multiplying of grace to be the multiplying of peace. The more you multiply and grow in grace, the more you will increase peace, inward peace of conscience: they are both joined together. You have a passage, 2 Pet. 1.5, 11. compared together, Add to your faith virtue, &c. The Apostle there urgeth our diligence to add grace to grace; that is, to live in the improvement of grace. And what will follow? ver. 11. If you do these things, you shall never fall; for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. You shall not only go to heaven, but you shall have an abundant entrance ministered before you come there; you shall have abundance of assurance and inward peace before you come there. And here to give you a more particular direction, there are these four graces chiefly you are to improve.
First, In case you would doe this, improve your graces. The more you encrease in grace, the more you will grow in comfort. Grace and comfort, they are two Twins, that the more one growes, the better the other thrives. Hence you ⟨p. 147⟩read, that in the salutation of every Epistle, the Apostle puts both together, Grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1.3. There the Apostle makes the multiplying of grace to be the multiplying of peace. The more you multiply and grow in grace, the more you will increase peace, inward peace of conscience: they are both joyned together. You have a passage, 2 Pet. 1.5, 11. compared together, Adde to your faith vertue, &c. The Apostle there urgeth our diligence to adde grace to grace; that is, to live in the improvement of grace. And what wil follow? ver. 11. If you doe these things, you shall never fall; for so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord Iesus Christ. You shall not onely goe to heaven, but you shall have an abundant entrance ministred before you come there; you shall have abundance of assurance and inward peace before you come there. And here to give you a more particular direction, there are these foure graces chiefly you are to improve.