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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.
To this I answer, as formerly, that the book of life in that place hath no reference to the decree of Gods Election, but only to his book of providence, that God would not protect wicked men, as he doth his own people, in a way of providence. And other phrases in Scripture will somewhat favour this interpretation. As Ezek. 13.9. They shall not be written in the writings of the house of Israel. Whats that? i. e. let them not any more be thought Israelites, nor numbered among the people. And Ainsworth, I remember compares Psal. 69.19. with this place in Ezek. 13.9. and he makes the sense to be one and the same; that to be blotted out of the book of life, is nothing else then to be out of Gods protection; to be blotted out of the catalogue of the living, and have ones life in danger to be brought to death. And this wish David wished for those wicked men.
To this I answer, as formerly, that the book of life in that place hath no reference to the decree of Gods Election, but onely to his book of providence, that God would not protect wicked men, as he doth his own people, in a way of providence. And other phrases in Scripture will somewhat favour this interpretation. As Ezek. 13.9. They shall not be written in the writings of the house of Israel. Whats that? i. e. let them not any more be thought Israelites, nor numbred among the people. And Ainsworth, I remember compares Psal. 69.19. with this place in Ezek. 13.9. and he makes the sence to be one and the same; that to be blotted out of the book of life, is nothing else then to be out of Gods protection; to be blotted out of the catalogue of the living, and have ones life in danger to be brought to death. And this wish David wished for those wicked men.