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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.
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⟩those that are not within the compass of Gods election, yet no man is bound to make this sure to himself, that he is not elected. You are bound to make your election sure, but you are not bound to make your reprobation sure. For these heads I have given out, not to make any godly man question his election, but to startle wicked men, who live quite contrary, and opposite to the elect of God.
1. That though these part•culars may give you a guesse of ⟨p. 180⟩those that are not within the compasse of Gods election, yet no man is bound to make this sure to himselfe, that he is not elected. You are bound to make your election sure, but you are not bound to make your reprobation sure. For these heads I have given out, not to make any godly man question his election, but to startle wicked men, who live quite contrary, and opposite to the elect of God.
2. That a man may come very nigh to the worst of these sins, and yet may be an elected man. We were (saith Paul) sometimes disobedient, deceived, and served divers lusts. Titus 3.3. And Eph. 2.2. In times past you walked according to the course of the world, according to the power of the Prince of the air, who worketh mightily in the children of disobedience. In times past ye were children of wrath, as well as others. In times past before calling, you may come very near to these evils, yet be within the compass of Gods election, Provided that you do not live and die in those evils. For if so, there is no hope of mercy.