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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.
Now this call no man can resist; Grace is irresistible; and this effectual calling by the operation of the Spirit, a man cannot resist. All the gain-sayings of the heart, and all the stoutness of the will it must stoop, and must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ, John 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, saith Christ, shall come unto me. They shall not be able to withstand Jesus Christ, but they shall come in unto him. So Isa. 55.10. As the rain comes down, and the snow from Heaven, and returns not thither again, but ⟨p. 65⟩waters the earth, to make it bring forth, so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth, it shall not return in vain; but shall accomplish that which I intended, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. As all the world cannot hinder the rain from coming down on the earth, no more can any man in the world, if God hath an intent to convert and call him, hinder the benefit of the word from redounding upon his soul.
Now this cal no man can resist; Grace is irresistable; and this effectual calling by the operation of the Spirit, a man cannot resist. All the gain-sayings of the heart, and all the stoutnesse of the will it must stoop, and must be brought under subjection to Jesus Christ, John 6.37. All that the Father hath given me, saith Christ, shall come unto me. They shal not be able to withstand Jesus Christ, but they shal come in unto him. So Isa. 55.10. As the rain comes down, and the snow from Heaven, and returns not thither again, but ⟨p. 65⟩waters the earth, to make it bring forth, so shall my word be that goes out of my mouth, it shall not return in vain; but shall accomplish that which I intended, and it shall prosper in the thing wherto I sent it. As all the world cannot hinder the rain from coming down on the earth, no more can any man in the world, if God hath an intent to convert and call him, hinder the benefit of the word from redounding upon his soul.