A88594:278
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
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5. If your hearing be a divided hearing, and your delight a divided delight, this can be no Argument of your call. As thus, A man may delight to hear, yet if that man divide and share his delights, partly to sin, and partly to the Word, this can be no evidence of his effectual calling. In the place before quoted, Hos. 7. They assembled together, and ⟨p. 88⟩howled upon their beds, yet they sin against me, saith the Lord. There they divided their delights, they would serve God in his Worship, yet they would sin against him. So those, Isa. 58.3, 6, 7. They took delight in drawing near to God, yet in the day of their fast, found pleasure in sin. Now, to have a divided love, to delight in sin, as well as in Ordinances, this can be no Argument of effectual calling; and your hearing the Word in these five cases, is but a mere delusion. But on the contrary, if your hearing be not a bare hearing, but with your delight in hearing, you join practice; If it be not a partial hearing, but the commanding and reproving part as welcome as any other; If it be such a hearing as is not selfish, Such a hearing, in which you aim more at Gods glory then your own advantage; if these be the qualifications, then your delight in hearing the Word, is an evidence of your effectual calling.
5. If your hearing be a divided hearing, and your delight a divided delight, this can be no Argument of your call. As thus, A man may delight to hear, yet if that man divide and share his delights, partly to sin, and partly to the Word, this can be no evidence of his effectual calling. In the place before quoted, Hos. 7. They assembled together, and ⟨p. 88⟩howled upon their beds, yet they sin against me, saith the Lord. There they divided their delights, they would serve God in his Worship, yet they would sin against him. So those, Isa. 58.3, 6, 7. They took delight in drawing near to God, yet in the day of their fast, found pleasure in sin. Now, to have a divided love, to delight in sin, as wel as in Ordinances, this can be no Argument of effectual calling; and your hearing the Word in these five cases, is but a meer delusion. But on the contrary, if your hearing be not a bare hearing, but with your delight in hearing, you joyn practice; If it be not a partial hearing, but the commanding and reproving part as welcome as any other; If it be such a hearing as is not selfish, Such a hearing, in which you aim more at Gods glory then your own advantage; if these be the qualifications, then your delight in hearing the Word, is an evidence of your effectual calling.