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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.
Thirdly, Search how you managed your assurance.
Fourthly, Search what should provoke God to take away your assurance.
Fifthly, and lastly, Search what you would give to God, so you might regain your former and wonted assurance. Put these questions to your hearts; As
First, Put upon the search, how you go• your assurance. It may be it was such an assurance as you have had ever since you were born from your mothers womb: that you got without care, and without pain; and if so, this is presumption, not assurance: and if you have lost this, it is well. It is better to be in a state of discouragement, then in a state of presumption.
Secondly, Examine how you grounded your assurance. It may be you bottomed it but upon self, not upon Christ. It may be, you bottomed it but upon the fantastical delusions of your own hearts, and not upon the grounded evidence of Gods Word; if so, that your assurance have had an ill bottom, it is no wonder if God turn it upside-down. If it be not rightly grounded, it will never long be continued. Examine therefore upon what grounds you have bottomed your assurance, and if you find the foundation of your comforts to be ill laid, you must pluck up all again.