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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
EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Death to Sin.EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Death to Sinne.
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.
Death to the power and reign of sin, is one part of the renovation of our natures, consisting in that which the Scripture calls mortification, by virtue of which, the love of sin, and delight in sin, which is indeed, the life of sin, is destroyed; At this death the Apostle points, Rom. 6 2. How shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? As if he had said, How shall we that are dead to the guilt of sin, take pleasure in the filth of sin, or wallow in any sin with delight? It is impossible; for death to the guilt of sin, always produceth death to the power and dominion of sin; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin. Is Christ be in you, as a Justifier, he is in you, as a Sanctifier also, The body is dead, because of sin.
Death to the power and reign of finne, is one part of the renovation of our natures, consisting in that which the Scripture calls mortification, by vertue of which, the love of sinne, and delight in sinne, which is indeed, the life of sinne, is destroyed; At this death the Apostle points, Rom. 6 2. How shall we that are dead to sinne, live any longer therein? As if he had said, How shall we that are dead to the guilt of sinne, take pleasure in the filth of sinne, or wallow in any sinne with delight? It is impossible; for death to the guilt of sin, alwayes produceth death to the power and dominion of sinne; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sinne. Is Christ be in you, as a Iustifier, he is in you, as a Sanctifier also, The body is dead, because of sinne.
1Christ and sin, may dwell in the same subject at the same time; yea Christ may live, where sin doth dwell; Christ liveth in me; sin dwelleth in me, 2saith the Apostle; but Christ and sin cannot both live, and reign together, in the same subject at the same time. Caesar and Pompey might better have lived and reigned together, than Christ and sin; where either of these lives, it reigns, and both cannot reign together; If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin.