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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.
Answ. 1. If this alone were sufficient to give the denomination of a soul alive to sin, then no soul living in a body of flesh, could conclude, that he were truly dead to sin, for their is no soul inhabiting this earthly house, no not the best alive, but hath cause thus •o complain.
Answ. 1. If this alone were sufficient to give the denomination of a soul alive to sinne, then no soul living in a body of flesh, could conclude, that he were truly dead to sinne, for their is no soul inhabiting this earthly house, no not the best alive, but hath cause thus •o complain.
2. But secondly, Every soul, dead to sin; doth bear the image of a double person, he bears the image of the first Adam, and the image of the second Adam: he is partly flesh, and partly spirit, and he is thus in every faculty of his soul; there is flesh in every faculty of his soul, sin dwelling in every faculty; this therefore doth not render the soul alive to sin.
2. But secondly, Every soul, dead to sinne; doth bear the image of a double person, he beares the image of the first Adam, and the image of the second Adam: he is partly flesh, and partly spirit, and he is thus in every faculty of his soul; there is flesh in every faculty of his soul, sinne dwelling in every faculty; this therefore doth not render the soul alive to sinne.
3. Then thirdly, Thou speakest in this, as one seeking after a perfect death, to the power and being of sin in thy self; But the Apostle, in this Text, points only at a true death to sin; and truly dead to sin, he may be, and is, to whom sin is a burden. So much for swet to this Objection.