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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.
Fourthly, that it is no matter what you were before your calling, if you are a repentant and holy people after; your former miscarriages shall no way prejudice your future blessedness, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Neither Fornicator, nor Idolater, nor Adulterer, nor envious, nor thief, nor covetous, nor reviler shall enter •nto the Kingdom of Heaven: and such were some of you &c. Here you see a Catalogue of vile evils heaped together, and such w•re some of you; but now you are washed, now you are sanctified, &•. So that no matter what you were before conversion, though guilty of great sins, so you are now a reformed people, now a sanctified people, Titus 3.3. We our selves were sometime• foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, ⟨p. 203⟩and living in malice and envy, &c. You were so, but after the kindness & love of God appeared to you, after they were converted they were not so. So that these four particulars will clearly take off this objection, that no matter what you were before conversion, if you are now a repentant people, and bewail your evils, and reform your ways, your former ill led life will be no hindrance at all to your election. Indeed this I must needs say, that you that have been most notorious in sin, God expects this at your hands, that you be most eminent in grace, most deep in humiliation, most eminent in godly sorrow, though your former evils do no way prejudice your election.
Fourthly, that it is no matter what you were before your call•ng, if you are a repentant and holy people after; your former miscarriages shall no way prejudice your future blessednesse, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Neither Fornicator, nor Idolater, nor Adul•erer, nor envious, nor thiefe, nor covet•us, nor reviler shall enter •nto the Kingdome of Heaven: and such were some of you &c. Here you see a Catalogue of vile evils heaped together, and such wre some of you; but now you are washed, now you are sanctified, &. So that no matter what you were before conversion, though guilty of great sins, so you are now a reformed people, now a sanctified people,