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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, 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.
Sixthly, God will sooner or later work an elect man into a new course of living, and of obedience, from what he had in times past. 1 Pet. 1.2. You are elected according to the foreknowledge of God through sanctification to obedience; that though you were disobedient before, serving divers lusts, yet God, if he hath chosen you, will bring you in a course of obedience, Rom. 8.29 He hath predestinated us. What to do? that we might be conformable to the image of his Son. God intends, that that person whom he chooseth to life, should be conformable to Jesus Christ, and that he shall live another manner of life then before; that though he hath formerly been subject to sin and ⟨p. 175⟩satan, yet then he shall walk in ways of obedience to Jesus Christ.
Sixthly, God will sooner or later work an elect man into a new course of living, and of obedience, from what he had in times past. 1 Pet. 1.2. You are elected according to the foreknowledg of God through sanctification to obedience; that though you were disobedient before, serving divers lusts, yet God, if he hath chosen you, will bring you in a course of obedience,