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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, if the devil cannot fasten this upon you, he will come upon you with this assault, viz. your frequent falling into scandalous and foul, and gross enormities, after you took upon you a profession of Jesus Christ. And this the devil will lay close: happily sin before conversion was not so great; but now since you have followed Sermons, and since you have professed Jesus Christ, since that time you have fallen foully into gross and scandalous sins, and surely this is inconsistent with grace, and cannot befall persons within the compass of Gods election.
Secondly, if the divell cannot fasten this upon you, he will come upon you with this assault, viz. your frequent falling into scandalous and foule, and grosse enormities, after you took upon you a profession of Jesus Christ. And this the divell will lay close: happily sinne before conversion was not so great; but now since you have followed Sermons, and since you have professed Jesus Christ, since that time you have fallen foulely into grosse and scandalous sinnes, and surely this is inconsistent with grace, and cannot befall persons within the compasse of Gods election.
And I confess this is both sad and hazardous: yet I shall lay down three things to uphold thee, that yet for all this thou mayest be within the compass of Gods election. As,
And I confesse this is both sad and hazardous: yet I shall lay down three things to uphold thee, that yet for all this thou maist be within the compasse of Gods election. As,
First, that divers persons who were within the compass of Gods election, have fallen foully into gross sins after their call. Lot, after he was called, fell to be incestuous, and fell to drunkenness; David, after he was called, fell into Adultery; Peter, after he was called, fell to a denial of Jesus Christ. Yea, you read of Solomon,