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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.
that let a man be as holy as he could be, if God had decreed his damnation, he should be damned; and let a man be never so wicked, if God have decreed his salvation, he should be saved; and that the decree of God took off the use of all means, that a man need not use any means, but only trust in God. The Physician being a man acquainted in the mysteries of Religion, after he had asked him the state of his body, and where the disease lay, the party desiring him to prescribe some physic, the Physician gave him this answer: saith he, God hath determined how long you shall live; therefore, if I give you physic, if God hath determined you shall die, you shall die for all that; and if he hath decreed you shall live, though I give you no physic, yet you shall live. And this answer (saith the Historian) took such place with the Italian, that it converted him in this very principle, and he became a man very diligent in following the means of grace, upon this very saying. And indeed, a just & grounded speech it is. This therefore is my first answer, that if such reasonings as these in temporal things are unreasonable, they are much more in spiritual.
that let a man be as holy as he could be, if God had decreed his damnation, he should be damned; and let a man be never so wicked, if God have decreed his salvation, hee should be saved; and that the decree of God tooke off the use of all means, that a man need not use any meanes, but onely trust in God. The Physician being a man acquainted in the mysteries of Religion, after he had asked him the state of his body, and where the disease lay, the party desiring him to prescribe some phisick, the Phisician gave him this answer: saith he, God hath determined how long you shall live; therefore, if I give you physick, if God hath determined you shall die, you shall die for all that; and if he hath decreed you shall live, though I give you no physick, yet you shall live. And this answer (saith the Historian) took such place with the Italian, that it converted him in this very principle, and he became a man very diligent in following the means of grace, upon this very saying. And indeed, a just & grounded speech it is. This therefore is my first answer, that if such reasonings as these in temporall things are unreasonable, they are much more in spirituall.