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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.
Fifthly, That though grace in thy heart be unchangeable, yet the sense and feeling of thy own graces is subject to great variation and change. Grace in it self is unchangeable. All the Devils in hell cannot pluck the meanest believer out of Christs hand. Those whom thou hast given me, I will keep, saith Christ, and none shall take them from me. The foundation of God stands sure; though thy knowledge that thou buildest upon that foundation may not be sure to thee. The Lord knows who are his, though thou mayst not. Grace it self is not changeable, though thy feeling of grace is subject to many alterations and changes. Though grace it self be an unshaken foundation, yet our feeling of grace is not so. In our feeling of grace, we are like the air, sometimes clear, sometimes cloudy; we are like the Sea, sometimes ebbing, sometimes flowing; ebbing in your comforts, as well as flowing in your graces. Believers in their feeling of grace, are like the trees of the field, sometimes flourishing green and growing; another time at the fall of the leaf, like a withered stump. So are Christians touching their own feeling; their apprehension of their graces is subject to much change, though their graces be not so.
Fifthly, That though grace in thy heart be unchangeable, yet the sense and feeling of thy own graces is subject to great variation and change. Grace in it selfe is unchangeable. All the Devils in hell cannot pluck the meanest believer out of Christs hand. Those whom thou hast given me, I will keep, saith Christ, and none shall take them from me. The foundation of God stands sure; though thy knowledge that thou buildest upon that foundation may not be sure to thee. The Lord knows who are his, though thou mayst not. Grace it selfe is not changeable, though thy feeling of grace is subject to many alterations and changes. Though grace it selfe be an unshaken foundation, yet our feeling of grace is not so. In our feeling of grace, we are like the aire, sometimes clear, sometimes cloudy; we are like the Sea, sometimes ebbing, sometimes flowing; ebbing in your comforts, as well as flowing in your graces. Believers in their feeling of grace, are like the trees of the field, sometimes flourishing green and growing; another time at the fall of the leafe, like a withered stump. So are Christians touching their own feeling; their apprehension of their graces is subject to much change, though their graces be not so.