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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.
As you know it is with the body, A man that is given to live a Sedentary life, a life of sitting, those bodies are more exposed to ill humours, (And therefore the life of Scholars is a life exposed most to diseases,) but those whose livelihoods are in handicraft trades, always in motion, and stirring; the motion expels the ill humours, that they cannot seize upon the body. It is so in the soul, the less you Act in matters of soul concernment, the more spiritual diseases and spiritual infirmities will grow upon you. Whereas the more active and industrious you are, the less power will ill distempers and humours have to seize upon the soul.
As you know it is with the body, A man that is given to live a Sedentarie life, a life of sitting, those bodies are more exposed to ill humors, (And therefore the life of Schollars is a life exposed most to diseases,) but those whose livelihoods are in handycraft trades, alwaies in motion, and stirring; the motion expels the ill humors, that they cannot seize upon the body. It is so in the soul, the lesse you Act in matters of soul concernment, the more spiritual diseases and spiritual infirmities will grow upon you. Whereas the more active and industrious you are, the lesse power will ill distempers and humors have to seize upon the soul.
17. Because the more diligent you are in matters pertaining to the soul, the nearer resemblance and conformity you carry to Jesus Christ: you read of Christ, that he went about always doing good: And when his father and mother mist him, and went three days sorrowing to seek him, and having found him, asked him, where hast thou been? Wot ye not•, saith Christ, I was about my fathers business? As if he should say; I wa• not about any evil work, but to glorify my God, and promote the honour of my father: this was my work. And elsewhere he tells us, it was his meat and drink to do the will of his father: Here was a diligent person indeed. Why the more industrious you are, and the more diligent you are in matters of the soul, the more like you are to Jesus Christ. And where can there be a better pattern