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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.
So in spiritual generation (to wit,) regeneration, where it is true and real, the work is begun within, in the heart and spirit, that is made new first, although perfected last, words and actions, which are but the effects of these causes, appear before them, and give demonstration of them, but these, as the cause, must needs proceed the effect.
So in spiritual generation (to wit,) regeneration, where it is true and reall, the work is begun within, in the heart and spirit, that is made new first, although perfect•d last, words and actions, which are but the effects of these causes, appear before them, and give demonstration of them, but these, as the cause, must needs preceed the effect.
A man by a common work of the Spirit of God on him,1 may be made another man then formerly he was, and yet not be a new Creature; He may have another heart then formerly he had, and yet not have a new heart; He may be qualified with moral grace in a high degree, and enabled to do much for God, and yet not be a new Creature, as appears in Saul and Judas; when God brought Saul to the Kingdom of Israel, according to Samuel's prop•esie, The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and •e became another man, and the Text says, God gave him another heart, 1 Sam. 10. ver. 6, 9. A heart other ways qualified then formerly. And Saul was valiant and prosperous in his enterprises against the Philistines, and gifted ⟨p. 110⟩for ruling, yet Saul never was a new Creature, he never had a new heart: Judas when called to the Apostleship by Christ, was by the Spirit of Christ gifted for the work whereunto Christ called him, he was made another man then he was before, yet was he not made a new Creature, he never had a new heart; He was gifted for the Church, but not for his own salvation.