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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.
8. The principles then being new and the spirit new, where the heart is made new, it must needs follow in the next place, by necessary consequence, That the life and conversation is new also, for these being made new, ⟨p. 122⟩cannot but produce newness of life; therefore I conclude this thus, A new heart always produceth a new life; if the heart be new, the life will be new also; Christ if truly formed in the Creature, is formed in every part of the Creature, in the whole man, in the whole life and conversation of the man, from his conversion, and new birth; This is the last, but not the least demonstrator of a new heart, of a new Creature, and such, as without which, no man can ever safely conclude, that his heart is new or his Creation new; He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the World, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love, Eph. 1.4. This therefore is vigour fit, and but fit to give the appearance of a new heart, of a new Creature. Thus much of the second appearance of a new Creature, he is one that hath a new heart.
8. The principles then being new and the spirit new, where the heart is made new, it must needs follow in the next place, by necessary consequence, That the life and conversation is new also, for these being made new, ⟨p. 122⟩cannot but produce newnesse of life; therefore I conclude this thus, A new heart alwayes produceth a new life; if the heart be new, the life will be new also; Christ if truely formed in the Creature, is formed in every part of the Creature, in the whole man, in the whole life and conversation of the man, from his convertion, and new birth; This is the last, but not the least demonstrator of a new heart, of a new Creature, and such, as without which, no man can ever safely conclude, that his heart is new or his Creation new; He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the World, that we should be holy and blamelesse before him in love, Eph. 1.4. This therefore is vigor fit, and but fit to give the appearance of a new heart, of a new Creature. Thus much of the second appearance of a new Creature, he is one that hath a new heart.