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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.
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 sh•re in him.
Seventhly, that God in chusing or electing men to life, doth let his election runne 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 dispised, 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 chuse•h 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 Jewes, 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 sh•re in him.