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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
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Lastly, To love a man so, as to carry compassion in your breasts towards him, to have a sympathizing heart with him in his sufferings, 1 Pet. 3.8. Suffer one with another, love as Brethren. This shows your love to be true, when it hath pity and compassion to attend it.
Lastly, To love a man so, as to carry compassion in your brests towards him, to have a sympathizing heart with him in his sufferings, 1 Pet. 3.8. Sufferone with another, love as Brethren. This shewes your love to be true, when it hath pity and compassion to attend it.
Delus. I pass now to a third delusion, which indeed is a main delusion, and hath deceived many, specially those that profess the Gospel, to make them believe they are effectually called, when they are not. And that is, because they discern a change in their conversation, that they are not the same men they were in days past; and hereby the Devil props up this persuasion, that surely they must needs be effectually called, and he alleges Scripture for it, 1 Cor. 6.9, 10, 11. Such were some of you, but ye are washed, &c. Now this being so universal a delusion among most men in the world, that if they have hopes of Heaven, it is upon this ground, that they are not the same now they were in times past. I shall therefore a little enlarge my self in speaking of this particular and shall lay down six or seven particulars, wherein I shall show, that this ground taken in general, is no infallible evidence of a mans effectual calling.
Delus. I pass now to a third delusion, which indeed is a main delufion, and hath deceived many, specially those that profess the Gospel, to make them believe they are effectually called, when they are not. And that is, because they discern a change in their conversation, that they are not the same men they were in days past; and hereby the Divel props up this perswasion, that surely they must needs be effectually called, and he alledges Scripture for it,