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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.
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 but an upright heart will hold on its way, & hold out upright in ⟨p. 120⟩crooked times, it will hold fast its integrity whatever it part with else, as God and an upright man affirms, Job 2.3. and 27.5, 6.
Finally, Integrity or uprightnesse is an abiding plant;1 It is a plant that will live under a torrid or a friged 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 abids in it: The upright do hold on his way, Job 17.9. An Hypocrite may professe the truth,