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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, Examine what special cause there was in your hearts, that might provoke God to cloud you in your comforts, and to take away your assurance from you. And here that you might a little be directed in this search, you may reduce the caus• of your eclipse, and of the removal of your assurance, unto this twofold head. Either it hath been the commission of some great transgression, or else the omission of some weighty duty, that may provoke God to darken your comforts. As,
First, the commission of some great transgression. Great sins they lay a foundation for great discomforts in tender consciences. Great sins they lay the conscience waste; to make it that was as a well-trimmed and impaled garden, to be as a ruinous wilderness. Great relapses they bring ordinarily dark eclipses upon the soul. And here that I might put you on this search, I would advise you to search what particular sin it was, and how you might know the transgression that might provoke God, to take away your comforts from you. As,
First, the commission of some great transgression. Great sins they lay a foundation for great discomforts in tender consciences. Great sins they lay the conscience waste; to make it that was as a well-trimmed and impaled garden, to be as a ruinous wildernesse. Great relapses they bring ordinarily dark eclipses upon the soul. And here that I might put you on this search, I would advise you to seach what particular sin it was, and how you might know the transgression that might provoke God, to take away your comforts from you. As,
First, if so be God did take away your comforts immediately after the committing of any gross sin, then you may be sure that sin was the occasion. Or,
First, if so be God did take away your comforts immediately after the committing of any grosse sin, then you may be sure that sin was the occasion. Or,