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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.
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 John 10 28, 29. I g•ve unto my sheep eternal •ife, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man take •hem out of my hand•; my Father that gave them me, is greater then all, and no man shall pluck them out of my Fathers hands. By his Fathers hands, ⟨p. 187⟩he me•ns his decree; God by his decree intended to save so many, and Christ to vindicate his Father, tells us, that so many as God The Father had decreed to salvation, neither man nor Devil should prevail to pluck them out of his Fathers hand. So Rom. 11.1. God hath not cast away his people whom he foreknew. That is, whom God did predestinate, he casts none of them away, none of them shall perish. Many many more Scriptures I might multiply, to show, that a man once elected, can never perish; as