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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, men elected by God to life and salvation shall sooner or later be brought into a state of believing, Acts 13.48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. No man that is ordained to eternal life, but shall be brought to a believing ⟨p. 174⟩estate. And therefore men living and dying in a state of unbelief, are not elected. Hence you read, Tit. 1.1. it is called, the faith of Gods elect; implying, that all that are elected, before they die shall have faith; and none shall have faith, but only they; and therefore in a peculiar manner, called the faith of Gods elect, appropriated only to them.
Thirdly, men elected by God to life and salvation shal sooner or later be brought into a state of believing, Acts 13.48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. No man that is ordained to eternal life, but shall be brought to a believing ⟨p. 174⟩estate. And therefore men living and dying in a state of unbeliefe, are not elected. Hence you read, Tit. 1.1. it is called, the faith of Gods elect; implying, that all that are elected, before they die shall have faith; and none shall have faith, but onely they; and therefore in a peculiar manner, called the faith of Gods elect, appropriated only to them.
Fourthly, That man that is elected, sooner, or later before he dies, God will work in his heart a special delight in, and an entire love to the word preached. This you have expressed, John 8.47. He that is of God, heareth Gods word; therefore ye are not of God, because ye hear not his words. To be of God, that is, to belong to God by election. Now, he that is of God, God will in time make him hear his word with delight and love; but he that takes no delight therein, is no elected of God.