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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
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Thirdly, If you would improve your assurance, keep close in communion with God. Nothing that feeds comforts so much as a Christians holy walking. Esa. 32.17. The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect thereof quietness and assurance for ever. If you walk in works of righteousness, and in a way of keeping lose communion with God; this shall be peace, and this shall be quietness, and great assurance. Mark how the Holy Ghost makes a gradation; not only peace and quietness, but assurance also: you shall have the highest degree of peace, and the highest step of comfort, if you walk diligently in a way of holiness with your God. And thus much be spoken to the first sort of men, those that live in the enjoyment of the assurance of their effectual calling.
Thirdly, If you would improve your assurance, keep close in communion with God. Nothing that feeds comforts so much as a Christians holy walking. Esa. 32.17. The work of righteousnesse shall be peace, and the effect thereof quietnesse and assurance for ever. If you walk in works of righteousnesse, and in a way of keeping lose communion with God; this shall be peace, and this shall be quietnesse, and great assurance. Mark how the Holy Ghost makes a g•adation; not onely peace and quietnesse, but assurance also: you shall have the highest degree of peace, and the highest step of comfort, if you walk diligently in a way of holinesse with your God. And thus much be spoken to the first sort of men, those that live in the enjoyment of the assurance of their effectual calling.
I have now a word to those men that live in the want of this assurance, who happily have in times past had some glimmering, ⟨p. 150⟩and some dim sight of comfort, touching their everlasting estate, and yet are now much clouded and eclipsed in their comforts, or have lost the comforts they once h•d, what they should do to recover it. And to these I hall by way of direction speak only four things.