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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.
By Scripture this is evident likewise, I will ⟨p. 67⟩put my Spirit within you (saith the Lord) and cause you to walk in my statutes, and keep my Judgments, and do them, Ezek. 36.27. Hence it is evident, That it is the Spirit of God, which works the heart of man to Obedience.
By Scripture this is evident likewise, I will ⟨p. 67⟩put my Spirit within you (saith the Lord) and cause you to walk in my statutes, and keep my Iudgments, and do them, Ezek. 36.27. Hence it is evident, That it is the Spirit of God, which works the heart of man to Obedience.
That this Obedience is a work of the Spirit of God in man, demonstrating his saving habitation, and sanctifying operation in man, is evident by the language of the Apostles, We are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given (to wit) savingly, to them that obey him, (to wit) Cordially and Evangelically, Act. 5.32. And by that of Peter, We are Elect according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit unto Obedience, 1 Pet. 1.2.
That this Obedience is such a work of the Spirit of God in man, as demonstrates his eternal salvation by Christ, is farther evident by these Scriptures following: Christ being made perfect became the Author of eternal salvation, unto all them that obey him,