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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.
And I confess this is both sad and hazardous; yet I shall lay down three things to uphold thee, that yet for all this thou mayest be within the compass of Gods election. As,
And I confesse this is both sad and hazardous; yet I shall lay down three things to uphold thee, that yet for all this thou maiest be within the compasse of Gods election. As,
First, that divers persons that were within the compass of Gods election, have fallen foully into gross sins after their call. Lot, after he was called, fell to be incestuous, and fell to drunkenness; David, after he was called, fell into Adultery; Peter, after he was called, fell to a denial of Jesus Christ. Yea, you read of Solomon, 1 Kings 11.9. That his heart was tu•ned from the Lord, after the Lord had revealed himself unto him twice. After God had revealed himself to Solomon, and converted him; after that time he did evil against his God. Nay, you read further, Nebem. 13.26 27. That Solomons wives turned away his heart from the Lord, though he was the beloved of his God. Though he were beloved by God, and were elected by him, yet his wives turned away his heart from the Lord. The like phrase you have Numb. 14.23. After all these works, I have done among ⟨p. 204⟩them, and the miracles I have shown them in Egypt, and in the Wilderness, they have provoked me, saith the Lord, these ten times. After they were the Lords by covenant, and after they were a delivered people; after this they provoked him many a time, by sinning against him, and yet divers of them were elect vessels of mercy. So that, I say, many of Gods servants after their calling, are fallen foully into scandalous sins, and yet have been within the compass of Gods election.
First, that divers persons that were within the compasse of Gods election, have fallen foulely into grosse sins after their call. Lot, after he was called, fell to be incestuous, and fell to drunkenesse; David, after he was called, fell into Adultery; Peter, after he was called, fell to a denial of Jesus Christ. Yea, you read of Solomon,