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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.
Caut. 3 3. Though you put forth never so much diligence in the matters of your soul, all those acts you do, are none or them meritorious: you do not get heaven for praying, nor get heaven for reading, nor get heaven for hearing, though haply you get not heaven without it. 1Good works, they may be causes of Salvation in this sense, Causes without which you cannot be saved; but all your obedience, and all your diligence are no causes for which you are saved, or which may any way move God to save you. So that though you are never so diligent, this diligence is not meritorious at all: Why? Because to make it meritorious, say Divines, three things must concur; First, The thing must be done freely, not as a debt. Secondly, It must be done with a mans own native and proper strength, and not a horrowed power. Thirdly, It must be done perfectly. And therefore Divines say, (and that upon good reason too) That all our obedience, and all our actings in the ways of grace cannot be meritorious: Why?
Caut. 3 3. Though you put forth never so much diligence in the matters of your soul, all those acts you do, are none or them meritorious: you do not get heaven for praying, nor get heaven for reading, nor get heaven for hearing, though haply you get not heaven without it. 1Good works, they may be causes of Salvation in this sense, Causes without which you cannot be saved; but all your obedience, and all your diligence are no causes for which you are saved, or which may any way move God to save you. So that though you are never so diligent, this diligence is not meritorious at all: Why? Because to make it meritorious, say Divines, three things must concur; First, The thing must be done freely, not as a debt. Secondly, It must be done with a mans own native and proper strength, and not a horrowed power. Thirdly, It must be done perfectly. And therefore Divines say, (and that upon good reason too) That all our obedience, and all our actings in the wayes of grace cannot be meritorious: Why?
- 1Causae sine quibus non.