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knowledge_n	kindness_n	lord_n	temperance_n	1,456	5	11.4306	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77788	A golden-chain, or, A miscelany of divine sentences of the sacred Scriptures, and of other authors. Collected, and linked together for the souls comfort. By Edward Bulstrode of the Inner-Temple, Esquire.	Bulstrode, Edward, 1588-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing B5443; Thomason E1618_2; ESTC R209646	90,388	257

up in us a certain knowledge of our election but also to stirr up in us a Christian and a godly strife and so to strive to make this our calling and election sure Remembring without ceasing 1 Thess 1.3 4. your work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and our father Knowing brethren beloved your election of God Wherefore the rather 2 Pet. 1.10 brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure for if ye do these things ye shall never fall For so an entrance shall be ministred unto you abundantly 2 Pet. 1.11 into the everlasting kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ Neither must we be carelesse in this great weighty matter of our election to salvation as to say as some very prophanely use to say what need I be so mindfull and carefull hereof If I am elected I am elected if otherwise it be appointed of God all my study and endeavour cannot effect it Such prophane resolutions must be ever withstood by us beaten down and suppressed for we must be ever very active herein and know thus much as a Father well observeth being this namely Quod Deus qui elegit te ad salvationem elegit te etiam ad media salvationis That God which hath chosen and elected thee unto salvation hath also elected and chosen thee to use the means to come unto salvation And as another Father saith St. Augustin Qui creavit te sine te non salvabit te sine te He which hath created thee without thee will not save thee without thee St. Augustin Work out your own salvation Philip. 2.12 13. with fear and trembling For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure For God hath not called us unto uncleannesse but unto holinesse 1 Thess 4.7 Wherefore 1 Pet. 1.13 14 15 16. gird up the loyns of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Iesus Christ As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Because it is written Be ye holy for I am holy For I am the Lord your God Levit. 11.44 ye shall therefore sanctifie your selves and ye shall be holy for I am holy And the Lord spake unto Moses Levit. 19.1 2. saying Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel and say unto them Ye shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy But ye are a chosen generation 1 Pet. 2.9 a royall priesthood an holy nation a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darknesse into his marvellous light Which in time past were not a people 1 Pet. 2.10 but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy As touching the election Rom. 11.28 29. they are beloved for the fathers sake For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance Who hath saved us 2 Tim. 1.9 10. and called us with an holy calling not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Iesus before the world began But now is made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Iesus Christ who hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel The foundation of God standeth sure having this seal 2 Tim. 2.18 The Lord knoweth them that are his and let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity But this one thing I do Philip. 3.13 14 15. forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I presse toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Iesus Let us therefore as many as be perfect be thus minded Put on therefore Collos 3.12 13 14 15. as the elect of God holy and beloved bowels of mercy kindnesse humblenesse of mind meeknesse long-suffering Forbearing one another and forgiving one another And above all things put on charity which is the bond of perfectnesse And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body and be ye thankfull God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise 1 Cor. 1.27 29 30 31. and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty That no flesh should glory in his presence But of him are ye in Christ Jesus who of God is made unto us wisdome and righteousnesse and sanctification and redemption That according as it is written He that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. Thus saith the Lord Jer. 9.23 24. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdome neither let the mighty man glory in his might nor let the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the Lord which exercise loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth for in these things I delight saith the Lord. But some one may happily say How shall I come to have a knowledge of this my election unto salvation To such a one it may be thus answered Notes of our Election Observe with thy self whether thou feelest and findest in thy self the effectuall notes and signes of thy election unto salvation working in thee or not as namely First What powerfull effect the word of God which we have so often heard preached unto us by way of reformation change and alteration hath wrought in us Secondly How we find and feel our selves to decline from sin and sinfull courses and whether we find in our selves a hatred of sin a strife and an endeavour in our selves to shun and avoid the same and all occasions which may any wayes draw us thereinto Thirdly How we find our selves to stand affected to vertue vertuous actions and goodnesse and whether we find in our selves a delight therein whether there be such a progresse in us in the way of godlinesse as S. Peter maketh mention of According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godlineffe 2 Pet. 1.3 4 5 6 7 8 9. through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and vertue Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust And besides this giving all diligence adde to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge And to knowledge temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godlinesse And to godlinesse brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindnesse charity For if these things be in you and abound they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord Iesus