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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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Now to answer some texts of Scripture they abuse, (which at first view you would think very plausible) to maintain, that a man may be an elect man, and brought into Christ, yet afterward damned. The first is, John 6.70. Have not I chosen ⟨p. 227⟩twelve, and one of them is a devil? Now say they, there were twelve chosen, or elected, and one of them is a devil, did perish, intimating, that men may be elected, yet perish for all this. To which I answer.
Now to answer some texts of Scripture they abuse, (which at first view you would think very plausible) to maintain, that a man may be an elect man, and brought into Christ, yet afterward damned. The first is, John 6.70. Have not I chosen ⟨p. 227⟩twelve, and one of them is a divell? Now say they, there were twelve chosen, or elected, and one of them is a divel, did perish, intimating, that men may be elected, yet perish for all this. To which I answer.
That there is a double electing. First, a choosing to some peculiar Office. Secondly, there is an electing to grace, life, and glory. Now, when Christ saith, Have not I chosen you twelve? it is meant of his choosing of them to an Office, to the place of an Apostle, to be his disciples. Now it is true, that man may be chosen to some peculiar office in the Church of God, and yet be a perishing and damned man; but this phrase hath no relation to the decree of God from eternity, only to a temporal electing of twelve men to a temporal Office, to the Office of an Apostle.
That there is a double electing. First, a chusing to some peculiar Office. Secondly, there is an electing to grace, life, and glory. Now, when Christ saith, Have not I chosen you twelve? it is meant of his chusing of them to an Office, to the place of an Apostle, to be his disciples. Now it is true, that man may be chosen to some peculiar office in the Church of God, and yet be a perishing and damned man; but this phrase hath no relation to the decree of God from eternity, onely to a temporall electing of twelve men to a temporall Office, to the Office of an Apostle.