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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.
It is a wilful and deliberate act in a professor of Religion, whereby he doth not only fall from his profession; but he runs into, a course of sin knowingly, against conscience; obstinately, against counsel; and maliciously, against Jesus Christ. This is briefly a description of this sin. Now I am persuaded there are many in the world that have professed Religion, that are, if not in this sin, yet at the very next door to it. And if a man be gone thus far, this is called in Scripture, a sin unto death; a sin, which if a man fall into, he may be sure he shall be damned. And thus I have in brief given you an account of these seven particulars, whereby every man may give a guess in his own thoughts, whether he be within the purpose of Gods election unto salvation or no.
It is a wilful and deliberate act in a professor of Religion, whereby he doth not onely fall from his profession; but he runns into, a course of sin knowingly, against conscience; obstinately, against counsel; and maliciously, against Jesus Christ. This is briefly a descrption of this sin. Now I am perswaded there are many in the world that have professed Religion, that are, if not in this sin, yet at the very next door to it. And if a man be gone thus farre, this is called in Scripture, a sin unto death; a sin, which if a man fall into, he may be sure he shall be damned. And thus I have in breif given you an account of these seven particulars, whereby every man may give a guesse in his own thoughts, whether he be within the purpose of Gods election unto salvation or no.
I have now, from this sad Doctrine, only a few comfortable positions to lay down, and so conclude. As,
1. That though these particulars may give you a guess of ⟨p. 180⟩