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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
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.
5. A fifth sad Conclusion is this, That when others are effectually called before your faces, and yet you remain uncalled, this should greatly aggravate your sin and condemnation; when (I say) you shall see others that live (haply) in the same house with you, that hear in the same congregation, that sit in the same seat with you; when you shall hear these effectually called, and you remain uncalled; this shall greatly increase your sin & damnation. Mat. 21.32. John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you believed him not; (that is, they were not called by his Ministry) ⟨p. 52⟩what then? but the Publicans and Harlots believed: what then? and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterwards that you might believe: Mark how Christ argues, he urges, that those men that heard the same Sermons that the other men did hear, they were converted; saith he, you see whores and harlots converted, (alluding to Mary Magdalen, and others) you see these, and yet you repent not, and yet you believe not: now you see one, then another; and yet when you see this, you repent not that you might believe. Beloved, This is a sad conclusion to you, that shall see others converted, when you that haply lie in the same bed, sit at the same board, and hear the same Sermons in the same Congregation; yet they shall be converted and called, and you not: this will greatly increase your sin and condemnation.
5. A fifth sad Conclusion is this, That when others are effectually called before your faces, and yet you remain uncalled, this should greatly aggravate your sin and condemnation; when (I say) you shall see others that live (haply) in the same house with you, that hear in the same congregation, that sit in the same seat with you; when you shall hear these effectually called, and you remain uncalled; this shall greatly increase your sin & damnation. Mat. 21.32. John came to you in the way of righteousnesse, and you beleeved him not; (that is, they were not called by his Ministry) ⟨p. 52⟩what then? but the Publicans and Harlots believed: what then? and you, when you had seen it, repented not afterwards that you might believe: Mark how Christ argues, he urges, that those men that heard the same Sermons that the other men did heare, they were converted; saith he, you see whores and harlots converted, (alluding to Mary Magdalen, and others) you see these, and yet you repent not, and yet you beleeve not: now you see one, then another; and yet when you see this, you repent not that you might beleeve. Beloved, This is a sad conclusion to you, that shall see others converted, when you that haply lie in the same bed, sit at the same board, and hear the same Sermons in the same Congregation; yet they shall be converted and called, and you not: this will greatly increase your sin and condemnation.