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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.
Integrity or uprightness is a growing and spreading plant, it is a plant which how small soever it be at its beginning, if once planted, grows greater and greater, it is always greater at last, then at the first; This Bildad hinted to Job, Job 8.7. and this Christ plainly affirms in the Parable of the mustard seed, Mat 13.31, 32. Uprightness is a plant that will thrive, though in a barren soil.
Integrity or uprightnesse is a growing and spreading plant, it is a plant which how small soever it be at its beginning, if once planted, grows greater and greater, it is alwayes greater at last, then at the first; This Bildad hinted to Iob, Job 8.7. and this Christ plainly affirms in the Parable of the mustard seed, Mat 13.31, 32. Uprightnesse is a plant that will thrive, though in a barren soyl.
Finally, Integrity or uprightness is an abiding plant;1 It is a plant that will live under a torrid or a frigid Zone, a plant that will bide the hottest Summer and the coldest Winter; my meaning is, it will hold out in the hottest persecution, and in the greatest defection; An upright heart abides in the truth, 2and the truth abides in it: The upright do hold on his way, Job 17.9. An Hypocrite may profess the truth,3 and go far in the profession of it for a time, but he will not always abide in it,4 sooner or later he will fall off quite, as is evident by those Texts quoted in the Margin;5