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Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…
Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ and assurance of salvation : with an appendix of laying down certain rules to be observed for preserving our assurance once obtained / published by Ed. Calamy ...
London: printed for Simon Miller, 1657
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 sincere Love to God, is fastened upon God principally,1 for that Divine excellency and spiritual beauty which is in him,2 and which he doth communicate unto his People, Because of the savour of thy good Ointments, thy name is as Ointment poured forth, therefore the Virgins love thee, saith the Text, Cant. 1.3. Spirituals and not temporals, as this Text shows, are the principal attractives of a sincere and virgin-Love to Christ.
Secondly sincere Love to God, is fastened upon God principally,1 for that Divine excellency and spirituall beauty which is in him,2 and which he doth communicate unto his People, Because of the savour of thy good Oyntments, thy name is as Oyntment poured forth, therefore the Virgins love thee, saith the Text, Cant. 1.3. Spirituals and not temporals, as this Text shews, are the principall attractives of a sincere and virgin-Love to Christ.
- 1Prop. 2.
- 2He that loves God aright, loves him for himself.
3. Sincere Love to God, is not guided by sense, but by faith, as the language of the Apostle fintimates; therefore saith the Apostle, Whom having not seen, we Love, whom having not seen with Corporal eye nor invisible favours, you still cleave to in affection. This is further evidenced in holy Job, who continued to love God, and obey him, even when he could not see one glimpse of his countenance, neither within him, nor without him, as appears by