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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.
THE Doctrine I am yet upon is this, That Christians ought to put forth a great deal of diligence to make this sure to their souls, that they are eternally called by God to life and salvation. In the prosecution of which Doctrine, I have gone over several particulars; and have now only one Query more to satisfy about Election, and then to wind up this Doctrine, in laying down some explicatory propositions, very conducible to illustrate this Doctrine of Election. And the Query to be resolved is this.
THE Doctrine I am yet upon is this, That Christians ought to put forth a great deal of diligence to make this sure to their soules, that they are eternally called by God to life and salvation. In the prosecution of which Doctrine, I have gone over several particulars; and have now onely one Query more to satisfie about Election, and then to winde up this Doctrine, in laying down some explicatory propositions, very conducible to illustrate this Doctrine of Election. And the Quere to be resolved is this.
What are those delusions of the Devil whereby he nourisheth presumptuous persuasions in the minds of men, that they are elected by God, when they are not? And to answer this, I shall reduce all I have to say under these three heads.
What are those delusions of the Devil whereby he nourisheth presumptuous perswasions in the minds of men, that they are elected by God, when they are not? And to answer this, I shall reduce all I have to say under these three heads.
First, The Devil persuades wicked men that they are elected upon this ground: Because they do not break forth into such gross and scandalous enormities in their lives, as many men that live about them do: and therefore the Devil bolsters them up in this, Surely if you were not elected, you would be as bad as any, and as vile and exorbitant as any. Now seeing God keeps you in, that you act not such things in your lives, as other men do; this may be a comfortable evidence to you, that you are in the number of Gods elect ones. And this delusion deceives thousands of people, especially moralized and civilized men; they run hoodwinked to hell, nourishing hopes of life and salvation, and