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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, it is true indeed, the Scripture saith, all whom God predestinates, he calls; but the Scripture doth not say, that all whom he calls, he predestinates. No man that God appoints to life, but before he dies, God will call him by the word; but God doth not say any where, that those whom he calls, them he did predestinate to life.
Secondly, many men are outwardly called by the word into a profession of Christ, when they are not eternally elected by God to salvation. Mat. 22.14. Many are called, but few are chosen. Many are called, but all those that are externally called by the word, are not chosen, nor all ordained to life. A man may be called from ignorance to knowledge, yet not elected Heb. 6.4. After they were enlightened, and had tasted the word of God, and the power of the world to come, yet they fell away. A man may be called from profaneness to profession, from the world into the Church, as Simon Magus was, yet not elected, but remain in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.
Secondly, many men are outwardly called by the word into a profession of Christ, when they are not eternally elected by God to salvation. Mat. 22.14. Many are called, but few are chosen. Many are called, but all those that are externally called by the word, are not chosen, nor all ordained to life. A man may be called from ignorance to knowledge, yet not elected Heb. 6.4. After they were enlightned, and had tasted the word of God, and the power of the world to come, yet they fell away. A man may be called from profanesse to profession, from the world into the Church, as Simon Magus was, yet not elected, but remain in the gall of bitternesse, and bond of iniquity.