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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 our selves unto Christ] According unto all his precepts: This is the latter clause in the description of Evangelical Obedience: A Christian by the Obedience of faith, Opens the everlasting doors to the King of Glory, to come in, and take possession and rule all in his heart and in his life: He resigns up all to be ordered by him, who so loved him, that he gave himself for him, so that not he, but Christ liveth, *ruleth, and ordereth all: Every thought is yielded up unto the Obedience of Christ, with desire that he will bring it into subjection, 2 Cor. 10.5.
And our selves unto Christ] According unto all his precepts: This is the latter clause in the description of Evangelicall Obedience: A Christian by the Obedience of faith, Opens the everlasting doors to the King of Glory, to come in, and take possession and rule all in his heart and in his life: He resigns up all to be ordered by him, who so loved him, that he gave himself for him, so that not he, but Christ liveth, *ruleth, and ordereth all: Every thought is yielded up unto the Obedience of Christ, with desire that he will bring it into subjection, 2 Cor. 10.5.
Faith doth both receive and give; it is faith that applies Christ to the man, and the man to Christ, as appears by Joh. 1.12. compared with 2 Cor. 8.5. Faith makes him ours, who makes all happiness ours; Faith makes him ours, in whom we are complete, and generates Love in our souls to him that hath loved us, and given himself for us, and this love constrains us to live, not unto our selves, but unto him which dyed for us, and rose again,