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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 which I answer. That poor here is only spoken of, as the quality of the persons that are chosen, not as the cause wherefore they are chosen. And this answer Mr. Perkins gives: that poverty is not the cause why, but the description of the persons that are chosen, that Gods decree of election doth commonly run among the poorer sort of men, the more to advance his own grace; that man shall not say, election is entailed upon works: for if poverty should be the cause of their election, then all that are poor should be elected, which is false. Again further they object,
To which I answer. That poor here is onely spoken of, as the quality of the persons that are chosen, not as the cause wherefore they are chosen. And this answer Mr. Perkins gives: that poverty is not the cause why, but the description of the persons that are chosen, that Gods decree of election doth commonly run among the poorer sort of men, the more to advance his own grace; that man shall not say, election is intailed upon works: for if poverty should be the cause of their election, then all that are poor should be elected, which is false. Again further they object,
2 Thes. 2.13. God from the beginning hath chosen us to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. Now say they, sanctification, and faith is made as the channel, through which election must run, and therefore that is the cause or motive why God did elect them. To this we answer.
2 Thes. 2.13. God from the beginning hath chosen us to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. Now say they, sanctification, and faith is made as the channel, through which el•ction must runne, and therefore that is the cause or motive why God did elect them. To this we answer.