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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.
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, Rom. 8.29 He hath predestinated us. What to doe? 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 sinne and ⟨p. 175⟩satan, yet then he shall walk in waies of obedience to Jesus Christ.
Thus having briefly finished these heads, I have only four or five cautions to lay down, to bound what hath been said within the limits of truth. As,