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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.
First, That man that falls back from a course of profession to a course of profaneness, without timely returning; the Scripture gives a shrewd guess of such a man, that he is not within the compass of Gods purpose to save. I do not say, every backsliding, and every decaying affection, but a total ⟨p. 175⟩and final relapse; when a man falls, and riseth not again; w•e• a mans runs from God, and returns not again; the Scripture gives a guess at him, that he is not within the compass of Gods election. Heb. 10.38, 39. If any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Interpreters observe, that in these words there is a figure, wherein there is less expressed, then is intended, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. It is as much as if God should have said, My soul shall hate, or I will exceedingly hate him. But we are not of them that draw back to perdition; but of them that believe, to the saving of their souls: which words clearly import, that men that draw back without returning, they draw back to perdition, to damnation; but we are not of them, saith the Apostle. And here then, beloved, doth this word fall upon any man before God this day? Hast thou left a course of strictness, and fallen into a course of profaneness and looseness? Hast thou fallen from thy God, and never thinkest of a returning? I shall not censure thee now, but if thou livest and diest in this estate, it is an undoubted argument, thou art not within the compass of Gods decree to save.
First, That man that falls back from a course of profession to a course of profanenesse, without timely returning; the Scripture gives a shrewd guesse of such a man, that he is not within the compasse of Gods purpose to save. I do not say, every backsliding, and every decaying affection, but a total ⟨p. 175⟩and final relapse; when a man falls, and riseth not again; w•e• a mans runs from God, and •eturns not again; the Scripture gives a guesse at him, that he is not within the compasse of Gods election.