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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.
3. That Love to Christ which falls off from Christ, when trials, tribulations and persecutions come, and will not bear the Cross for Christs sake, when he calls thereunto, is no ⟨p. 29⟩sincere Love, but an Hypocritical, as Christ shows, Mat. 10.38. He that taketh not up hi• Cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me: And further illustrates in the Parable of the stony ground, Mat. 13.20, 21.
3. That Love to Christ which fals off from Christ, when tryals, tribulations and persecutions come, and will not beare the Cross for Christs sake, when he cals thereunto, is no ⟨p. 29⟩sincere Love, but an Hypocritical, as Christ shews, Mat. 10.38. He that taketh not up hi• Cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me: And further illustrates in the Parable of the ftony ground, Mat. 13.20, 21.
That Love to Christ which makes not a man to account all things but loss, and dross, and dung for Christ, and to set such a price on Christ, and his hopes by him, that he resolves through the help of Christ, to part with any thing which may hinder him from doing Christ faithful service, how near or dear soever it be, or ought to be, yea with life it self, or whatsoever contentments may endear it unto him, when Christ calls him to it, is no sound nor available Love, as Christ shows when he saith, If any man come to me, and hate not his Father, and Mother, and Wife, and Children, and Brethren, and Sisters, yea, and his life also, he cannot be my Disciple,