A treatise of effectual calling and election. In XVI. sermons, on 2 Pet. 1.10…

Now, to speak to this: I answer, It is clear in Scripture, that every kind of love to the people of God, is no Argument of effectual calling; but there may be a feigned, and a counterfeit love, as well as any other grace. Hence the Apostle presses, Rom. 12.9. Let your love be without dissimulation; importing, that men may dissemble their love, as well as any grace else. 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word and in tongue only, but in deed and in truth. So 1 Pet. 1.22. Let there be unfeigned love to the Brethren: intimating, that there may be a feigned and false love. So that every kind of love, is no evidence of effectual calling. And this I shall make out by this demonstration; Because there are several acts or expressions of love, that men who are not effectually called, ⟨p. 89⟩may show to godly men. Now if a man uncalled, may show many expressions and acts of love to a man converted; then mere showing love to a godly man, is no Argument of your effectual calling. I shall reduce what I have to say, unto six Heads: As

Now, to speak to this: I answer, It is clear in Scripture, that every kind of love to the people of God, is no Argument of effectual calling; but there may be a fained, and a counterfeit love, as wel as any other grace. Hence the Apostle presses, Rom. 12.9. Let your love be without dissimulation; importing, that men may dissemble their love, as wel as any grace else. 1 John 3.18. Let us not love in word and in tongue onely, but in deed and in truth. So 1 Pet. 1.22. Let there be unfained love to the Brethren: intimating, that there may be a fained and false love. So that every kind of love, is no evidence of effectual calling. And this I shal make out by this demonstration; Because there are several acts or expressions of love, that men who are not effectually called, ⟨p. 89⟩