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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.
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 ⟨p. 208⟩never feel the contrary, till they come to death and hell. I shall declare this to be a delusion, in laying down four or five particulars. As
First, The Devil perswades wicked men that they are elected upon this ground: Because they doe not break forth into such grosse and scandalous enormities in their lives, as many men that live about them doe: and therefore the Devil boulsters 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 doe; 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 morallized and civillized men; they run hoodwinkt to hell, nourishing hopes of life and salvation, and ⟨p. 208⟩never feel the con•rary, till they come to death and hell. I shall declare this to be a delusion, in laying down four or five particulars. As