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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.
Thirdly, a man that doth walk in a course of sin, wilfully, with malice, and knowingly against conscience, and obstinately ⟨p. 178⟩without reluctancy; and persist in this, and live and die thus, that man is not within the compass of Gods election. There is a phrase, Psal. 59.5. Be not merciful, O Lord, unto wicked transgressors. It is in some translations, be not merciful to them that sin of wicked malice, or of malicious wickedness. Now there is this rule which Divines give; that those prayers which were made by David, they are rather Prophesies of what should be, then mere prayers that this might be. As David prayed against the Jews, Psal. 69.2•. that their table might be a snare to them, and that they should alway bow down under their prays which was a prophecy, and they did so. And so he burden: here, that God would not be merciful to men that s•n of wicked malice; which is as much as a prophecy, that God will not be merciful to men that sin of malicious wickedness. And therefore, beloved, all you that so live, and resolve you will die, and haply do die, and yet sin obstinately; that, let God command what he can, you will do what you please; let the Minister say what he will, you will do what you lift; that sin against knowledge, and against conscience, and without any reluctancy; resolve to live and die in a course of sin: the Lord be merciful to such persons; for certainly there must be no Bible, if such men fall within the compass of Gods election.
Thirdly, a man that doth walk in a course of sin, wilfully, with malice, and knowingly against conscience, and obstinately ⟨p. 178⟩without reluctancy; and persist in this, and live and die thus, that man is not within the compasse of Gods election. There is a phrase, Psal. 59.5. Be not merciful, O Lord, unto wicked transgressors. It is in some translations, be not merciful to them that sin of wicked malice, or of malicious wickedness. Now there is this rule which Divines give; that those prayers which were made by David, they are rather Prophesies of what should be, then meere prayers that this might be. As David prayed against the Jewes,