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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.
Sincere Love to God is a constant growing love, and an everlasting love, it holds out in all times and seasons, and variety of conditions, prosperity and adversity, praise and persecution, health and sickness, plenty and poverty, liberty and bonds, yea, in death it self, and after death through all eternity; death doth not terminate this grace, but perfect it; therefore saith the Apostle of a sincere lover, nhe dwelleth in love, and of this love, oIt never faileth.
A man that sincerely loves God continues to love him, when he hides his face from him, and he cannot see him, nor one glimpse of his favour, neither within him, nor without him; yea, when he frowns upon him▪ and shows himself marvellous unto him, as Job speaks, and the Arrows of the Almighty stick fast in his soul, And Satan, and his own Conscience deluded ⟨p. 35⟩by Satan, tells him, He shall never see the face of God with comfort; And however God carries himself towards him, yet he dares not from thence take leave to vary his carriage towards God, but loves him still, for better, for worse, and obeys him to the utmost of his power: which shows in the next place,
A man that sincerely loves God continues to love him, when he hides his face from him, and he cannot see him, nor one glimpse of his favor, neither within him, nor without him; yea, when he frowns upon him and shewes himself marvelous unto him, as Iob speaks, and the Arrows of the Almighty stick fast in his soul, And Satan, and his own Conscience deluded