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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.
Secondly, a man that is elected by God to life, sooner or ⟨p. 209⟩latter God will sanctify him by renewing and regenerating grace: And this is only different from the former in degree; for calling is sanctification begun. Now when God elects a man, he doth not only begin the work of grace, but he carries it on in a course of sanctification. And of this you read 2 Thes. 2.12, 13. We are bold to give thanks to God always for you, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. If God hath from the beginning chosen a man to salvation, the Lord doth it through sanctification; not for sanctification, as the Papists say, or for faith foreseen, but it is through it, as a means whereby we are brought to salvation; sanctification shall run through your lives, as water through a channel. So, 1 Pet. 1.2. They that are elected according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by Christ, through sanctification. So 2 Tim. 2.21. And therefore beloved, if men live and die, and have not the power of sanctifying grace upon their hearts and consciences, and working in their lives, doubtless those men are not elected; because this you see clearly, that at one time or other God will work this in such men. Jude 4.
Secondly, a man that is elected by God to life, sooner or ⟨p. 209⟩latter God will sanctifie him by renewing and regenerating grace: And this is onely different from the former in degree; for calling is sanctification begun. Now when God elects a man, he doth not onely begin the work of grace, but he carries it on in a course of sanctification. And of this you read 2 Thes. 2.12, 13. We are bold to give thanks to God alwaies for you, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and beliefe of the truth. If God hath from the beginning chosen a man to salvation, the Lord doth it through sanctification; not for sanctification, as the Papists say, or for faith forseen, but it is through it, as a means whereby we are brought to salvation; sanctification shall runne through your lives, as water through a channel. So,