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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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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. 1 John 4.5, 6.
Fourthly, That man that is elected, sooner, or later before he dies, God will work in his heart a special delight in, and an intire 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. 1 John 4.5, 6.
Fifthly, The Lord will sooner or later work in the heart of an elect man, love to the people of God, and compassion to those who are not the elect and chosen one of God, Col. 3.12. Put on as the elect of God, bowels of mercy and loving kindness. The Apostle there by the manner of phrase doth seem to intimate thus much, Put on as the elect of God, &c. As if it were a thing ordained to, and inseparable from an elect man, after his effectual calling, that he should have bowels of mercy towards those that are not called, and that he should have loving kindness towards those that are called. For a man that is once elected, and hath the execution of that decree in effectual calling, it is proper to him to have bowels of mercy.