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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.
The first is that of the Papists, who utterly deny any such thing as assurance about a mans Calling, Justification, or Election by God, and they hold all their followers in suspense, affirming that the most a man can have, is a conjectural faith; an hope or conjecture that he shall be saved. And hence it is, that in that Popish Council of Trent, they made this Canon; 1That if any man doth say, that he is bound of faith to believe that he is certainly in the number of Gods called ones, or justified ones, or elect ones, let him be Anathema, let him be accursed. That man that would so much as take this assurance to himself, they would hold that man accursed. And the reason why they do it, is, because they hold another error, to wit, falling from grace; which they could not maintain, did they not hold this also; this is the first extreme.
The first is that of the Papists, who utterly deny any such thing as assurance about a mans Calling, Justification, or Election by God, and they hold all their followers in suspense, affirming that the most a man can have, is a conjectural faith; an hope or conjecture that he shall be saved. And hence it is, that in that Popish Councel of Trent, they made this Canon; 1That if any man doth say, that he is bound of faith to believe that he is certainly in the number of Gods called ones, or justified ones, or elect ones, let him be Anathema, let him be accursed. That man that would so much as take this assurance to himself, they would hold that man accursed. And the reason why they do it, is, because they hold another error, to wit, falling from grace; which they could not maintain, did they not hold this also; this is the first extream.
- 1Si quis dixerit hominem renatum teneri ex fide ad credendum se certò esse ex numero Praedestinatorum, anathema sit. Sess. 6. Can 15.