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A treatise of effectual calling and election. In XVI. sermons, on 2 Pet. 1.10…
A treatise of effectual calling and election. In XVI. sermons, on 2 Pet. 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 Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1653
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3. God puts the soul into a kind of spiritual astonishment, that the poor sinner doth not know where to go, what course to take, which way to turn, how he may get pardon for his sin, and recovery from his misery. This you find mentioned as Gods method, Acts 2.37. upon 3000 at once, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? They were even in a maze, the word wrought upon them, and they saw Jesus Christ crucified to be their sin; and now they cry out in great astonishment, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? When God effectually calls a man, he will leave him a little to himself, that he knows not which way in the world to turn him. Now when I speak of spiritual Astonishment, mistake me not; for First, I press not such a measure of Humiliation, nor such a measure of trouble of mind, how great it must be; Nor Secondly do I press the duration of it; how long it must be; that you must be so long and so long. Nor Thirdly, do I press an absolute necessity of this, as if a man could not be called without it. Indeed, we read of Lydia, that her heart was opened, and she never troubled nor astonished; and God sometimes works thus in an extraordinary way: but I press this, that ordinarily, its Gods Method in some measure or other, at some time or other, to put his people into such a plunge, that they shall not know which way in the world to turn themselves. And so were those 3000 Acts 2. They could not tell what they should do to be saved.
3. God puts the soul into a kind of spirituall astonishment, that the poor sinner doth not know where to goe, what course to take, which way to turn, how he may get pardon for his sin, and recoverie from his miserie. This you find mentioned as Gods method, Acts 2.37. upon 3000 at once, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? They were even in a maze, the word wrought upon them, and they saw Jesus Christ crucified to be their sin; and now they crie out in great astonishment, Men and Brethren, what shall we do to be saved? When God effectually calls a man, he will leave him a little to himself, that he knows not which way in the world to turn him. Now when I speak of spiritual Astonishment, mistake me not; for First, I press not such a measure of Humiliation, nor such a measure of trouble of mind, how great it must be; Nor Secondly do I press the duration of it; how long it must be; that you must be so long and so long. Nor Thirdly, doe I press an absolute necessitie of this, as if a man could not be call'd without it. Indeed, we read of Lydia, that her heart was opened, and she never troubled nor astonisht; and God sometimes works thus in an extraordinarie way: but I press this, that ordinarily, its Gods Method in some measure or other, at some time or other, to put his people into such a plunge, that they shall not know which way in the world to turne themselves. And so were those 3000