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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.
There is a vast difference, between being made another man,1 and being made a new man, as these instances declare; Neither Saul nor Judas ever were new Creatures, nor ever had a new heart, nor any renewing grace wrought by the Spirit of God in them.
There is a vast difference, between being made another man,1 and being made a new man, as these instances declare; Neither Saul nor Iudas ever were new Creatures, nor ever had a new heart, nor any renewing grace wrought by the Spirit of God in them.
- 1The newness of the heart, consisteth not in the substance of it, but in the quality of it; when the heart is made new, the substance is not altered, but the quality isaltered: A renewed heart, is in Scripture called a new heart. Job 19.28.
A new heart is proper and peculiar to a new Creature, fit, and but fit, to give the appearance of a new Creature.
The Creature therefore is to be accounted new, only as it can derive newness from within, newness from the heart and spirit; all without may be new, all the apparel new, and yet the person old that wears it; so all without may be new in appearance, profession, words and actions, all new, and yet the Creature old still; the newness of the Creature consists chiefly in the renovation of the inward man; I say (chiefly) not only.