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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.
2. A man graciously poor in spirit, sees in himself a great emptiness of grace; he sees that he is not sufficient of himself to think a good thought; He is in his own account,1 the poorest man, in the best things of all, that look after them, Less than the le•st of all Saints; he disclaims all his own righteousnesses, and accounts them as rotten rags, and abominable things, in reference to Justification before God; He forgets all that is behind; if he cast up his parts, his gifts, and his graces, he concludes, Circumcision is nothing, nor Uncircumcision is ⟨p. 82⟩nothing; his faith, his love, his repentance, his obedience, all put together, nothing; he brings in the total sum in mere ciphers; I am nothing, yea worse then nothing, saith this soul; Can a man be profitable unto his Maker? I am unprofitable to God and man: When saw I thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? &c. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool? saith this soul.
2. A man graciously poor in spirit, sees in himself a great emptiness of grace; he sees that he is not sufficient of himself to think a good thought; He is in his own account,1 the poorest man, in the best things of all, that look after them, Less than the le•st of all Saints; he disclaimes all his own righteousnesses, and accounts them as rotten raggs, and abominable things, in reference to Justification before God; He forgets all that is behind; if he cast up his parts, his gifts, and his graces, he concludes, Circumcision is nothing, nor Vncircumcision is ⟨p. 82⟩nothing; his faith, his love, his repentance, his obedience, all put together, nothing; he brings in the totall summe in meer ciphers; I am nothing, yea worse then nothing, saith this soul; Can a man be profitable unto his Maker? I am unprofitable to God and man: When saw I thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and cloathed thee? &c. Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool? saith this soul.