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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
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2. A second Queee is this, Whether may one that is an elect man, fall away from his election, and come to be a damned man, or no? This the Protestant Divines against the Arminians and Papists have had large controversies about, but I will not handle it in a controversial way; only, as it best becomes a Pulpit show you those positive Scriptures and reasons that may clear the truth, and then answer the strongest objections they produce to the contrary.
2. A second Queee is this, Whether may one that is an elect man, fall away from his election, and come to be a damned man, or no? This the Protestant Divines against the Arminians and Papists have had large controversies about, but I will not handle it in a controversal way; onely, as it best becomes a Pulpit shew you those positive Scriptures and reasons that may clear the truth, and then answer the strongest objections they produce to the contrary.
Whether may a man that is elected fall away, and afterward perish?1 To this I answer. No. A man that is once elected by God can never perish. And this I shall give Scripture, and reason to plead for it. Matth. 24.24. Christ tells us of error, that it came in so easily, that if it were possible, it would deceive the elect. Intimating, that it is impossible so to seduce the elect, as to make them finally fall away. So, John 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, shall come unto me: that is, all that God the Father hath decreed to save by Christ, shall come unto Christ. Vers. 39. This is the Fathers will, that ha•h sent me, that of all that he hath given me, I should lose none. This is the Fathers will, and Commission to Christ, that of all those that by his decree he had given to Christ to •ave by redemption, he should lose none. And saith Christ, I ave lost nothing. So