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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.
Quest. But you will say, How shall I know, whether my heart be washed from wickedness, or not?
Ans. I will mention only one Character of a heart washed from wickedness, which is this; In a heart washed from wickedness, vain thoughts do not lodge as welcome guests, and if not vain thoughts, then much less wicked thoughts: this is plainly hinted in this Text, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved; how long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee, it is as if the Lord had said? Thy willing lodging of vain thoughts within thee, plainly demonstrates thy heart is not washed from wickedness, for were thy heart washed from wickedness, vain thoughts would not, ⟨p. 112⟩nay they could not lodge within thee, as welcome guests.
Ans. I will mention only one Character of a heart washed from wickednesse, which is this; In a heart washed from wickedness, vain thoughts do not lodg as welcome guests, and if not vain thoughts, then much lesse wicked thoughts: this is plainly hinted in this Text, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou maist be saved; how long shall vain thoughts lodg within thee, it is as if the Lord had said? Thy willing lodging of vain thoughts within thee, plainly demonstrates thy heart is not washed from wickednesse, for were thy heart washed from wickednesse, vain thoughts would not, ⟨p. 112⟩nay they could not lodg within thee, as welcom guests.
Vain thoughts may, and oftentimes do, arise in the best and most holy man or woman alive,1 but they do not lodge with such a person as welcome guests.