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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.
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.
3. Then thirdly, Thou speakest in this, as one seeking after a perfect death, to the power and being of sinne in thy self; But the Apostle, in this Text, points only at a true death to sinne; and truly dead to sinne, he may be, and is, to whom sinne is a burthen. So much for ••swet to this Objection.
4. In the fourth place, The body of sin, i• truly dead, wastes and decays; there is a decaying in this body, and a wasting away, as in the natural body, when once dead; therefore saith the Apostle, I die daily, thereby implying, that where there is a true death to sin, there is a true decaying of sin.
4. In the fourth place, The body of sinne, i• truly dead, wastes and decayes; there is a decaying in this body, and a wasting away, as in the natural body, when once dead; therefore saith the Apostle, I die daily, thereby implying, that where there is a true death to sinne, there is a true decaying of sinne.
Object. But conscience in some may here reply again, and say, I cannot hence conclude, that I am one truly dead to sin; but rather see cause to conclude on the contrary, for I do not find that corruption doth decay and wast away in me, but rather that it grows stronger and stronger.