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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.
First, That all men are not the objects of Gods election, or of Gods choice. And this proposition doth confute the opinion of Origen. Origen was of this mind, that all mankind should be saved, nay, the very devils themselves, they should all be saved by Christ. A most groundless, and unheard of opinion; for all men are not elected to salvation. Jude tells us, in his Epistle, there were some of old ordained to condemnation; and if so, surely they could not fall within the compass of Gods election, 1 Thes. 5.9. There are some ordained to wrath; but we are not amongst them saith the Apostle, but we are ordained to obtain salvation by Jesus Christ. All are not objects of Gods election to life.
First, That all men are not the objects of Gods election, or of Gods choice. And this proposition doth confute the opinion of Origen. Origen was of this mind, that all mankind should be saved, nay, the very divels themselves, they should all be saved by Christ. A most groundlesse, and unheard of opinion; for all men are not elected to salvation. Jude tels us, in his Epistle, there were some of old ordained to condemnation; and if so, surely they could not fall within the compasse of Gods election, 1 Thes. 5.9. There are some ordained to wrath; but we are not amongst them saith the Apostle, but we are ordained to obtaine salvation by Jesus Christ. All are not objects of Gods election to life.
Secondly, that the fewest sort of men and women that God ⟨p. 254⟩hath made are the the objects of his election. God in his own counsel hath elected to life and salvation the fewest sort of men and women in the world. And this is a very dreadful point, Many are called, but few are chosen. Matth. 22.14.