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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.
It is the Observation of a Rabbi, That the Snail above all other creatures, was by God pronounced unclean, because of its slow and easy pace: God looks upon thee as an unclean man, and an unclean woman, that hast a sluggish and a slow spirit in matters of Christianity. There are many men that like no life like an idle life; they are never weary so much, as they are weary of doing good, and weary of duties; an hour at a Sermon, a day at a Fast, a little time at a prayer quite tires them; whereas ways of vanity, and ways of pleasure, they are never weary of. It was the speech of that Epicure Marcus Lepidus, 1who lying under a shady tree upon a Sunshine day, stretching himself, cries out, O would to God this were to take pains to live at ease. There are many men ⟨p. 19⟩as sottish as he: they could wish, I would to God to sit in a Tavern were the way to go to heaven; I would to God to walk in the fields, to sit at the door on the Sabbath day, that this were the way to heaven; many men would be saved more easily! Why, how should this condemn that great sluggishness and idleness of mens spirits, that they do so little in the matters of soul concernments?
It is the Observation of a Rabbi, That the Snail above all other creatures, was by God pronounced unclean, because of its slow and easie pace: God looks upon thee as an unclean man, and an unclean woman, that hast a sluggish and a slow spirit in matters of Christianity. There are many men that like no life like an idle life; they are never weary so much, as they are weary of doing good, and weary of duties; an hour at a Sermon, a day at a Fast, a little time at a prayer quite tires them; whereas waies of vanitie, and waies of pleasure, they are never weary of. It was the speech of that Epicure Marcus Lepidus, 1who lying under a shady tree upon a Sunshine day, stretching himself, cries out, O would to God this were to take pains to live at ease. There are many men ⟨p. 19⟩as sottish as he: they could wish, I would to God to sit in a Tavern were the way to go to heaven; I would to God to walk in the fields, to sit at the door on the Sabbath day, that this were the way to heaven; many men would be saved more easily! Why, how should this condemn that great sluggishnesse and idlenesse of mens spirits, that they do so little in the matters of soul concernments?