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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.
SERMON XIII.
2 PETER 1.10. Wherefore the rather, Brethren, give all diligence to make your Calling and Election sure.
IN the prosecution of this subject, you may remember, the last Doctrine I drew forth was this, That Christians should put forth a great deal of diligence to make this sure to their souls, that they are eternally elected by God the Father. In the handling of which, I have shown you, 1. what election is. 2. That the people of God may make sure their own election, though done from all eternity.
IN the prosecution of this subject, you may remember, the last Doctrine I drew forth was this, That Christians should put forth a great deale of diligence to make this sure to their soules, that they are eternally elected by God the Father. In the handling of which, I have shewn you, 1. what election is. 2. That the people of God may make sure their own election, though done from all eternity.
I come now to show you, how the people of God may be assured in their own hearts that they are eternally elected. And here, to compass this knowledge or assurance of our election, I do not only carry it so far as the Papists do, that say, you may have a persuasion, which they call, fides conjecturalis, a conjectural faith, or hope you may be saved; but will not come up so far as the words of my Text, to be sure of it. Now should a man use no more then the words of the Text, in that it is pressed as a command, it is an argument it may be made sure to a mans own self. For no man is bound to an impossible thing;