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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.
Now to take off this; I shall answer it in showing you the true intent and scope of this Scripture. This universal phrase of making alive, hath not reference to the saving of the soul, but to the resurrection of the body: And so the sense is this▪ That as in Adam, by virtue of his sin, every man came to die a natural death; So in Christ shall all be made alive; that is, so by Christs power shall every man rise from the dead. And if you ask how I make that appear to be the intendment of the Text. I answer, the words themselves will make it plain. Vers. 11. It is said, By man came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead: that is, as by that man Adam came death, so by that man Christ shall come the resurrection from the dead: for as in Adam all died, &c. so that here you see, this is brought in as a proof of the 21. verse: Intimating, that this being made alive, hath no reference to the life of the soul, but only to the Resurrection of the body; that as Adam by his sin brought death to all men, so Christ by his power shall raise all men from the dead; every man in his own order. However, should this be granted, that this making alive should have reference to the life of the soul; it would bear no more but this, that all that are damned, are damned as in Adams loins; and all that are saved, shall be saved as in the loins of Jesus Christ. And so make nothing at all to prove this which they call universal election.
Now to take off this; I shall answer it in shewing you the true intent and scope of this Scripture. This universal phrase of making alive, hath not reference to the saving of the soul, but to the resurrection of the body: And so the sence is this▪ That as in Adam, by vertue of his sin, every man came to die a natural death; So in Christ shall all be made alive; that is, so by Christs power shall every man rise from the dead. And if you aske how I make that appear to be the intendment of the Text. I answer, the words themselves will make it plain. Vers. 11. It is said, By man came death, by man also came the resurrection from the dead: that is, as by that man Adam came death, so by that man Christ shall come the resurrection from the dead: for as in Adam all died, &c. so that here you see, this is brought in as a proof of the 21. verse: Intimating, that this being made alive, hath no reference to the life of the soul, but onely to the Resurrection of the body; that as Adam by his sin brought death to all men, so Christ by his power shall raise all men from the dead; every man in his own order. However, should this be granted, that this making alive should have reference to the life of the soul; it would bear no more but this, that all that are damned, are damned as in Adams loines; and all that are saved, shall be saved as in the loins of Jesus Christ. And so make nothing at all to prove this which they call universal election.