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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.
And it is manifest thus, it issueth out of the ⟨p. 42⟩love of God, and is carried to man for God, for Gods sake,1 as the Apostle plainly shows, By this we know we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his Commandments, &c. As if he had said, By this we know, that our love towards man is sound, and such as demonstrates the holy Spirits saving habitation in us, even by this, that it issueth out of the love of God, as the spring and fountain of it, and is dilated on man, for Gods sake, for so much that phrase [keep his Commandments,] implies.
And it is manifest thus, it issueth out of the ⟨p. 42⟩love of God, and is carried to man for God, for Gods sake,1 as the Apostle plainly shews, By this we know we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his Commandements, &c. As if he had said, By this we know, that our love towards man is sound, and such as demonstrates the holy Spirits saving habitation in us, even by this, that it issueth out of the love of God, as the spring and fountain of it, and is delated on man, for Gods sake, for so much that phrase [keep his Commandements,] implies.
God commands us to love one another, and to aim principally at his glory herein;1