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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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2. If God hath effectually called you, he will by his Spirit bring you out of a state of ignorance and darkness, and give you some measure of knowledge, to be acquainted both with the mysteries of God and Christ, and the sinfulness of your selves, more then ever you were before. This the Apostle Peter intimates, 1 Pet. 2. ver. 9. You are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, a peculiar people, that you may show forth the praises of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: i. e. out of ignorance into a great measure of knowledge. And it is called a marvellous light, 1. Because it is marvellous if you compare that knowledge you shall have under the Gospel, with what men had under the Law. 2. It is marvellous, because men are astonished, that they should, after so long a night of ignorance, come to so great a measure of knowledge. 3. It is called marvel us, because it is so contrary to that condition they were formerly in: As if a man that hath lain long in a dark dungeon, should be suddenly called into a glorious Palace, the Palace would seem more glorious, because it is so contrary to the dark Prison: So this work of God when he calls you, it is called marvellous light, because it is so contrary to the condition you were in before your calling. Isa. 30.26. Acts 26.18. He hath sent his word to call you from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. 4. It is a marvellous light, because such as none but the Mediator could procure it, Isa. 42.6, 7. I will give thee for a light to the gentiles. 5. It is a marvellous light, because a light that shines out of darkness, 2 Cor. 4.6. God that commanded the light to shine out of darkness. 6. It is a marvellous light because it hath more force then any other light: 'tis called the light of life, Joh. 8.12.
2. If God hath effectually called you, he will by his Spirit bring you out of a state of ignorance and darknesse, and give you some measure of knowledg, to be acquainted both with the mysteries of God and Christ, and the sinfulnesse of your selves, more then ever you were before. This the Apostle Peter intimates,