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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 soul-humbling affection,§19 it thinks it can never do, nor suffer ⟨p. 38⟩enough for God, and thence it is, that it doth not glory in any doing or suffering, it comes still short of what it should do, and what it would do, and therefore is not puffed up with what it doth, but rather humbled by its failings; Knowledge puffeth up, but love casteth down the soul.
Sincere Love to God is a soul-humbling affection,§19 it thinks it can never do, nor suffer ⟨p. 38⟩enough for God, and thence it is, that it doth not glory in any doing or suffering, it comes stil short of what it should do, and what it would do, and therefore is not puffed up with what it doth, but rather humbled by its failings; Knowledge puffeth up, but love casteth down the soul.
Sincere Love to God is a heart-softening affection, §20as is evident by the carriage of Nathan towards David, when the Lord sent Nathan to awaken David, 1and call him to repentance; What did Nathan, but labour to set an edge on David's love, by setting the loving kindness of the Lord before him, as one knowing, that if any thing melted his heart, this would do it, and this we see did it, which plainly shows, That love is a heart-softening affection. This is yet farther evident in other of the Saints, Josiah loved his God, and hence it was that his heart melted, when he considered, how he and his people had offended God by walking contrary to his statutes; Mary Magdalen sincerely loved Christ, and hence it was that her heart was so mollified and melted, for the sin she had committed.