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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.
He whose Obedience springs from Love to God, hath his heart first warmed with the sense of Gods Love to him; and he that aims principally at the glory of God, in his Obedience, hath his heart humbled, when he hath done the best that he can, for that he cannot bring more glory to God, and hence it comes to pass, that he is willing, and ready to obey; He consents to obey, and that without grudging or repining, even when he comes short of doing, what he desires to do. What I would, ⟨p. 74⟩that do I not, saith a cordial server of Christ.
2. Cordial Obedience, is universal Obedience, and that both in respect of the Subject, and in respect of the Object, it is yielded of the whole man to the whole Will of God; the soul, according to all the powers and faculties thereof, is only, and wholly for Christ, in its scope and bent, the understanding, the will and the affections, are in their scope and bent, only and wholly for Christ, therefore saith the Apostle, of such as were cordial servers of Christ, Ye have obeyed from the heart, &c. Rom. 6.17. The body and all its members, are yielded up wholly, and only to Christ, to the service of Christ, for the magnifying of Christ, shall I take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an Harlot, saith the cordial server of Christ? God forbid, 1 Cor. 6.15.
1God requires the whole man, soul and body, to be wholly yielded up unto him, unto his use and service, in Obedience, Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods, saith the Text,