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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.
6. A man may be effectually called, when in his own apprehension, he cannot find any real and sound evidence of his vocation. This that Phrase in Peter imports, 2 Pet. 1.11. Whoso doth not these things, is blind and cannot see afar off. It is spoken of a godly man, of a man that hath his election sure, but doth not add grace to grace to make his calling sure, that man is purblind and cannot see afar off; that is, cannot see as far as heaven, that his name is written there; cannot have clear and strong comfort of his belonging to God. Many a godly man, may be effectually called, and yet that man a purblind man, not able to behold as with open face the evidence of his effectual calling.
6. A man may be effectually called, when in his own apprehension, he cannot find any real and sound evidence of his vocation. This that Phrase in Peter imports, 2 Pet. 1.11. Whoso doth not these things, is blind and cannot see afar off. It is spoken of a godly man, of a man that hath his election sure, but doth not adde grace to grace to make his calling sure, that man is purblind and cannot see afar off; that is, cannot see as far as heaven, that his name is written there; cannot have clear and strong comfort of his belonging to God. Many a godly man, may be effectually called, and yet that man a purblind man, not able to behold as with open face the evidence of his effectuall calling.
7. A man may have a grounded assurance that he is effectually called, and yet neither know the time when, nor the manner how, nor the instrument by whom he was called. And this is a very comfortable Conclusion. There are some that press conversion so high, that if a man cannot tell the time when, or the manner how, or the Sermon by which he was called, they say that he is not yet converted; this is too rigid a Doctrine; and the Scripture makes more for the confirmation of this, that a man may have a grounded assurance of his effectual calling, when he neither knows the time, nor the manner, nor the instrument, by which he was called.