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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.
Thirdly,1 whether doth God elect any man to life and salvation upon foresight of his faith or good works? foreseeing that this man will believe, therefore I elect him to salvation; and the other man will not believe, therefore I choose him to damnation. Whether, I say, doth God in his eternal decree elect any man to life upon foresight of works. Here the Papists and Arminians join both together in maintaining of this. The reason, say they, why God elects some, and not others, is because God did foresee from eternity that that man would be holy, and would believe in Christ, and therefore God elected him to salvation. These are the hard imputations they lay to Gods charge.
Thirdly,1 whether doth God elect any man to life and salvation upon foresight of his faith or good works? foreseeing that this man will believe, therefore I elect him to salvation; and the other man will not believe, therefore I chuse him to damnation. Whether, I say, doth God in his eternal decree elect any man to life upon foresight of works. Here the Papists and Arminians joyn both together in maintaining of this. The reason, say they, why God elects some, and not others, is because God did foresee from eternity that that man would be holy, and would believe in Christ, and therefore God elected him to salvation. These are the hard imputations they lay to Gods charge.
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And in the resolving of this, I shall answer it in the Negative. That God, in electing a certain number of men to life and salvation, did not do it upon the foresight of any good works he saw would be in them; whether Faith, Repentance, Sanctification, or any other grace. Indeed it is true, the Papists many of them do not grossly say that it was foresight of good works in general, but the foresight of faith only, and so the Arminians.