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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.
Secondly, Men that do make the mercies and goodness of God as arguments to embolden them the more in sin, such men are not likely to be the persons whom God hath elected to life and glory. In the Epistle of Jude, v. 4. It is spoken there of men, that turned the grace of God into wantonness. And what saith the Apostle of them, they are men ordained of old to damnation. The Scripture there makes it the badge of a man ordained of old to damnation, when he shall persist in this sinful temper, to turn Gods grace into lasciviousness; that is, to take arguments from the grace, and mercy, and goodness of God, to walk in ways of sin. And therefore look to it, and with your hearts bewail it, all you that are apt to abuse doctrines of grace; and because God is good you will be evil; because God is merciful, therefore you will be sinful; if you die in this temper, the Scripture declares, that you are the men ordained of old to condemnation.
Secondly, Men that do make the mercies and goodness of God as arguments to embolden them the more in sin, such men are not likely to be the persons whom God hath elected to life and glory. In the Epistle of Jude, v. 4. It is spoken there of men, that turned the grace of God into wantonness. And what saith the Apostle of them, they are men ordained of old to damnation. The Scripture there makes it the badge of a man ordained of old to damnation, when he shall persist in this sinful temper, to turn Gods grace into laciviousnesse; that is, to take arguments from the grace, and mercy, and goodnesse of God, to walk in waies of sin. And therefore look to it, and with your hearts bewaile it, all you that are apt to abuse doctrins of grace; and because God is good you will be evil; because God is merciful, therefore you will be sinful; if you die in this temper, the Scripture declares, that you are the men ordained of old to condemnation.
Thirdly, a man that doth walk in a course of sin, wilfully, with malice, and knowingly against conscience, and obstinately ⟨p. 178⟩