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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.
First, If it be not a stubborn and wilful ignorance. Though you are ignorant, yet if you are willing to learn, and know the ways of God revealed in his Word, such an ignorance will never damn you: But when ignorance comes to be wilful, that a man doth not know, and he will not learn; a man is an ignorant man yet he thinks he knows more then all the Preachers can tell him; this is a sad sign you are not effectually called. Hence you read, Prov. 1.22. How long, ye simple ones, will you love simplicity, &c? Godly people may be in a state of ignorance, but they love it not; therefore, 2 Pet. 3.5. the Scripture tells us of wicked men, that they are wilfully ignorant. So that if your ignorance have not this bad quality in it, to be a stubborn and wilful ignorance, it may stand with your effectual calling.
First, If it be not a stubborne and wilfull ignorance. Though you are ignorant, yet if you are willing to learn, and know the wayes of God revealed in his Word, such an ignorance will never damne you: But when ignorance comes to be wilful, that a man doth not know, and he will not learne; a man is an ignorant man yet he thinks he knows more then all the Preachers can tell him; this is a sad signe you are not effectually called. Hence you read, Prov. 1.22. How long, ye simple ones, will you love simplicity, &c? Godly people may be in a state of ignorance, but they love it not; therefore, 2 Pet. 3.5. the Scripture tells us of wicked men, that they are wilfully ignorant. So that if your ignorance have not this bad quality in it, to be a stubborne and wilfull ignorance, it may stand with your effectual calling.
Secondly, Provided that your ignorance be not a sottish and brutish ignorance; that is, that you do not so lie clouded ⟨p. 123⟩