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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.
Sixthly, All men that are elected by God to life and salvation shall sooner or later before they die be called into a state of conversion, and believing, Rom. 8.30. whom he did predestinate, them be also called: and Acts 13.48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. So that God the father, in ordaining man to life, hath ordained this also, that before they die, they shall be a converted and believing people, and therefore men remaining unconverted, uncalled, unbelieving, they are not the objects of Gods election.
Sixthly, All men that are elected by God to life and salvation shall sooner or later before they die be called into a state of conversion, and believing, Rom. 8.30. whom he did predestinate, them be also called: and Acts 13.48. As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. So that God the father, in ordaining man to life, hath ordained this also, that before they die, they shall be a converted and believing people, and therefore men remaining unconverted, uncalled, unbelieving, they are not the obiects of Gods election.
Seventhly, that God in choosing or electing men to life, doth let his election run ordinarily unto the meanest, and unto the worst sort of men in the world, •en that have least natural endowments, least moral excellencies, least worldly gallantry; ordinarily election runs that way. God hath chosen the poor things of this world, and things despised, and things that are not hath be chosen. 1 Cor. 1.27. Jam. 2.5. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith. Ordinarily the Lord chooseth poor and mean men, that have no natural or moral excellencies. Hence it was that when Christ left the learned Pharisees, and Doctors among the Jews, the ignorant and poor people, they flocked after Jesus Christ; they looked after Jesus Christ, when the rich and great men of the world had no shre in him.