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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.
4. A gracious heart, if he hath or can find that he hath a real interest in Christ, though he wants much in the world, 1he thinks he wants nothing; but he hath all things in having a Christ; nor will he complain of poverty, when endowed with the riches of heaven. Luke 22.25. And Christ said unto them, when I sent you without purse, and without scrip, and shoos, lacked you any thing? Mark the question. Now, if a carnal man had been to answer this, what would he have said? What? send a man without a purse, then he wants money; send him without a scrip, he wants meat; send him without shoos, a man is a poor man indeed, that hath no shoos to his feet; a carnal man would have said, Yes Lord, we want money, and we want meat, and we want shoos; but ask the Disciples, wanted you any thing? They said, Nothing. And why was this? Because the Disciples knew they had a grounded interest in Jesus Christ, and a right to Jesus Christ, and though they wanted these poor outward comforts, they did not want Christs comfort, and Christs graces; and therefore ⟨p. 78⟩when they had neither purse, scrip, nor shoos, they wanted nothing. Why, O Beloved, if you were of the temper of these gracious Disciples, you would say so too; that if you can find a grounded and real interest in Christ, though you want many of the Comforts of this world, you will say you want nothing. Wanted ye any thing? and they said, Nothing.
4. A gracious heart, if he hath or can find that he hath a real interest in Christ, though he wants much in the world, 1he thinks he wants nothing; but he hath all things in having a Christ; nor will he complain of povertie, when endowed with the riches of heaven. Luke 22.25. And Christ said unto them, when I sent you without purse, and without scrip, and shoos, lacked you any thing? Mark the question. Now, if a carnal man had been to answer this, what would he have said? What? send a man without a purse, then he wants mony; send him without a scrip, he wants meat; send him without shoos, a man is a poor man indeed, that hath no shoos to his feet; a carnal man would have said, Yes Lord, we want mony, and we want meat, and we want shoos; but ask the Disciples, wanted you any thing? They said, Nothing. And why was this? Because the Disciples knew they had a grounded interest in Jesus Christ, and a right to Iesus Christ, and though they wanted these poor outward comforts, they did not want Christs comfort, and Christs graces; and therefore