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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.
Such as the measure of contrition wrought in the soul is, such usually is the measure of his affection to, and thirst after these Divine excellencies forementioned.
14. The soul Evangelically Contrite, disclaims all righteousness of its own, and rests wholly on the merit of Christ, for justification before God, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags, saith the Contrite Church, Isai. 64.6. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, and do judg them, but dung, that I may win Christ, saith the Apostle, Phil. 3.8, 9.
14. The soul Evangelically Contrite, disclaims all righteousnesse of its own, and rests wholly on the merit of Christ, for justification before God, We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy raggs, saith the Contrite Church, Isai. 64.6. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Iesus, my Lord, and do judg them, but dung, that I may winne Christ, saith the Apostle, Phil. 3.8, 9.
When once this Evangelical contrition h•d seized on the heart of Paul, he renounced all his own righteousness, all before conversion and all after conversion, (his old man and his new) in matter of justification, and rested wholly upon the merit of Christ, which plainly demonstrates the truth asserted.