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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49258	A treatise of effectual calling and election In XVI. sermons, on 2 Peter 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 faithfull servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love, late minister of Laurence Jury, London.	Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing L3179; ESTC R217684	182,116	237

A TREATISE OF EFFECTUALL CALLING AND ELECTION In XVI SERMONS On 2 Peter 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 faithfull Servant of CHRIST Mr. CHRISTOPHER LOVE late MINISTER of Laurence Jury London LONDON Printed for John Rothwell at the Fountain and Beare in Goldsmiths Row in Cheapside 1655. To the Reader Good Reader IT s a true saying that the assurance of an eternal life is the life of this temporal life The Apostle tells us that if in this life only we had hope in Christ we were of all men most miserable None being exposed to so m●ny troubles and tribulations in this life as the best Christian And what could sustain and bear us up under them all but the certain hope and expectation of a better Resurrection This makes Christians glory in tribulation despise all the glory of the world run as swiftly in waies of duty as the chariots of Aminadab in a word to enjoy a Heaven upon earth They therefore are the greatest enemies of a Christians comfort that teach a doctrine of doubting that a Christian must alwaies hang in suspense about his eternal state and can never arrive to any certainty whether he shall be saved or no. But as this assurance is excellent so it is hard to come by Difficilia quae pulchar 'T is not to be obtained without a great deal of labour and diligence 'T is usually the fruit of much prayer and care and humiliation and long-waiting those that come by it so easily and get it so soon have great cause to suspect that their assurance is not of the right kinde Carnal security and presumption is e●sily attained but Christian assurance not without great difficulty 'T is therefore much to be lamented that there is so litt●e diligence used for obtaining the assurance of our effectual Calling and eternal Election which i● of such great concernment to every Christian What care do men take and what diligence do they give to make sure their lands and goods and worldly estates They cannot be at rest till they have secured these But upon what uncertainties do they venture the salvation of their precious and immortal souls They run the most desperate hazard of their eternal salvation never consider whether they are in the way to heaven or hell until they drop irrecoverably into the bottomlesse pit Oh what a strange madnesse possesseth the mindes of men that they should look no more to their own safety that they think it wisedom to secure every thing except their own soules What evil have they deserved of you that you should neglect them so much The design of this Treatise is to awaken men from their security and to stirre them up to give all diligence to make their Calling and Election sure It was handled by the Author as a just Consectary from the doctrine of the Glory of Heaven and the Torments of Hell which Treatise is already published as appeares in the Introduction to this discourse That seeing there is such glory prepared for the Elect and such torments for the reprobate it concerns every Christian to give all diligence to make sure to himself that he shall attain the one and escape the other So that these three Treatises have dependance upon each other and together make up one compleat Systeme In this last thou shalt finde many practical cases handled of great soul-concernment both for the comfort of such as are sincere and the discovery of those that are unsound If thou wilt reap any profit by the perusal hereof let God have the praise and let them have thy prayers who are Ready to spend and be spent for the good of thy soul Edmund Calamy Jeremiah Whitaker Simon Ashe William Taylor Allen Geere OF THE ASSURANCE OF OUR Vocation and Election SERMON I. 2 Pet. 1.10 Wherefore the rather Brethren give diligence to make your Calling and Election sure TO give you an account why I pitch'd upon these words it is briefly thus Having spent seventeen Sermons in treating of the glory of Heaven for the Elect and of the torments of Hell for the Reprobate I deem'd it most meet to shut up those two Doctrines in the prosecution of this Subject of the Assurance of our Election and Vocation that so if this Doctrine be well improved you may have establishment in your own hearts that you are freed from the torments of the damned and may be confident you shal be stated into the Glory of Heaven which God hath provided for all his Saints And to the end you might have assurance that you shall be freed from the one and shall enjoy the other you must make it your work according to the words of my Text to make your calling and election sure Make but that sure and you are sure of heaven This is the reason why I pitch'd upon this subject And it is my care in preaching the Word not to chuse those Texts that are most for my ease in study but for your profit in hearing that so one Subject might back another and one Subject might strengthen another and being put together might more serve for your edification and knowledge I shall not stand long in Prefacing All that I have to doe in the managing of those words are these three things 1. To shew you the scope and dependance of the words 2. The sense and meaning 3. To draw out those practical observations which naturally flow from them and then apply the observations deduced For the scope and dependance of these words you may discern it lyes thus Peter who is called an Apostle of the Circumcision that is an Apostle whose work and office it was to Preach to the circumcised Jewes as it was Pauls office to Preach to the uncircumcised Gentiles he writ his Epistle to the dispersed Jewes that were scattered throughout the world through Pontus Asia Cappadocia Galacia and Bythinia whence observe Gods people are a scattered people And to them he writes that though they were persons living in different places yet they had the same faith Simon Peter a servant and an Apostle of Jesus Christ to them that have obtained like precious faith So that you see the spirit of God where it works in men though they live in different places yet they shall all believe the same Truth and all receive the same Faith Though different in language yet but one God and one Faith The spirit of God wrought the same Faith among those scattered Christians and the Apostle writing to these Jewes he begins his Epistle 1. By way of salutation ver 2. Grace and peace be multiplyed to you 2. He writes by way of consolation ver 4. telling them that they are Partakers of the Divine Nature that they are called to Glory and shall enjoy all the promises of the Gospel These are the great props with which he bears up their