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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.
This body (to wit) sin, whilst alive ⟨p. 91⟩rules and reigns, as a Husband, as a Lord and Master, and is obeyed freely and willingly, (with the consent of the whole will,) so much that phrase of the Apostle,1 To whom ye yield your selves servants to obey, doth imply. But when Christ once espouseth a soul unto himself, he divests this Lord of his power, He puts this Husband to death, and assumes all the rule and domination to himself: And the soul thus espoused, yields to obey him, as her sovereign Lord and sole Commander; We have no king but Caesar, said the Jews; So saith the soul dead to sin. I have no King but Christ, I yield my self willingly to no other; Therefore saith the Apostle, If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sin, That is the desire, and bent of the soul, which is naturally to sin, and for sin, is turned from sin, and against sin; so that the body of sin cannot without much reluctancy and opposition bear sway, where Christ dwells.
This body (to wit) sinne, whilest alive ⟨p. 91⟩rules and reignes, as a Husband, as a Lord and Master, and is obeyed freely and willingly, (with the consent of the whole will,) so much that phrase of the Apostle,1 To whom ye yeeld your selves servants to obey, doth imply. But when Christ once espouseth a soul unto himself, he divests this Lord of his power, He puts this Husband to death, and assumes all the rule and domination to himself: And the soul thus espoused, yeelds to obey him, as her sovereign Lord and sole Commander; We have no king but Caesar, said the Iews; So saith the soul dead to sinne. I have no King but Christ, I yeeld my self willingly to no other; Therefore saith the Apostle, If Christ be in you, the body is dead, because of sinne, That is the desire, and bent of the soul, which is naturally to sin, and for sinne, is turned from sinne, and against sinne; so that the body of sinne cannot without much reluctancy and opposition bear sway, where Christ dwells.