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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.
Christ must needs take this unkindly, that you should give the Devil the flower of your age, and give to Christ but the decrepit and infirm parts of your lives; that the Devil should suck out the Marrow of your youth, and only give God the dry bones, a palsy head, a dim eye, a weak body, and so all your services must needs be weak also: and think but how unkindly Christ will take your services thus performed.
Christ must needs take this unkindly, that you should give the Devil the flower of your age, and give to Christ but the decrepit and infirm parts of your lives; that the Devil should suck out the Marrow of your youth, and onely give God the dry bones, a palsie head, a dim eye, a weak body, and so all your services must needs be weak also: and think but how unkindly Christ will take your services thus performed.
Sixthly, Consider this, that from your Birth-day, to your dying day, you have time little enough to carry on the business of your salvation, should you live never so long; and therefore you have no cause to put off the call of Jesus Christ. And thus much be spoken by way of satisfaction, to take off the first temptation, that you are too young to give entertainment to the call of Jesus Christ: and this I do ⟨p. 71⟩for the sake of young men, that they may take heed of being insnared by this delusion of the Devil.
Sixthly, Consider this, that from your Birth-day, to your dying day, you have time little enough to carry on the business of your salvation, should you live never so long; and therefore you have no cause to put off the call of Jesus Christ. And thus much be spoken by way of satisfaction, to take off the first temptation, that you are too young to give entertainment to the call of Jesus Christ: and this I do ⟨p. 71⟩for the sake of young men, that they may take heed of being insnar'd by this delusion of the Devil.