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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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Secondly, Set upon humbling work: the only way to gain what you have lost, is to mourn over your losses. Jer. 31.18, 19, 20. See how Ephraim comes to have his comforts restored, when he wept over his own discomforts: I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, saith God, and I said, Is Ephraim my dear son, I saw him smiting upon his thigh, humbling his soul for his sins; and since I saw him, I do earnestly remember him, and I will show mercy to him. Here you see lamenting Ephraim; God in the very time of his bemoaning himself, restored his comforts to him: we hear many lament for their outward losses, but who laments for the loss of inward comforts? And David after he had lost his comforts by that great sin of adultery, makes seven penitential Psalms, Psalms of lamentation or repentance; and he calls one of them, A Psalm to call to remembrance. And as an Author well notes, when David came to renew his comforts, he makes a Psalm to call to remembrance those sins that might provoke God to take away his comforts from him: So Beloved, let it be your work to make such Psalms in your Closets, and make it your practice to call to remembrance those evils that provoke God to eclipse your comforts to you, and let that humble you. If you cannot ⟨p. 152⟩[…] ⟨p. 153⟩[…] ⟨p. 152⟩[…] ⟨p. 153⟩[…] ⟨p. 154⟩find out the Particular sin, labour to humble your souls for every sin, and then to be sure you cannot miss that.
Secondly, Set upon humbling work: the onely way to gain what you have lost, is to mourn over your losses. Jer. 31.18, 19, 20. See how Ephraim comes to have his comforts restored, when he wept over his own discomforts: I have heard Ephraim bemoaning himselfe, saith God, and I said, Is Ephraim my dear sonne, I saw him smitting upon his thigh, humbling his soul for his sins; and since I saw him, I do earnestly remember him, and I will shew mercy to him. Here you see lamenting Ephraim; God in the very time of his bemoaning himselfe, restored his comforts to him: we hear many lament for their outward losses, but who laments for the losse of inward comforts? And David after he had lost his comforts by that great sin of adultery, makes seven penitential Psalmes, Psalmes of lamentation or repentance; and he calls one of them, A Psalm to call to remembrance. And as an Author well notes, when David came to renew his comforts, he makes a Psalm to call to remembrance those sins that might provoke God to take away his comforts from him: So Beloved, let it be your work to make such Psalmes in your Closets, and make it your practice to call to remembrance those evils that provoke God to eclipse your comforts to you, and let that humble you. If you cannot