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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.
13. In the third place, A new Creature is one that lives in Christ, the new stock, as a branch in the vine; And brings forth fruit in him.
13. In the third place, A new Creature is one that lives in Christ, the new ftock, as a branch in the vine; And brings forth fruit in him.
- 1The third demonstration of a new Creature is living in Christ and bringing forth fruit in him.
That a new Creature is one that lives in Christ the new stock, is evident by the Language of the Apostle in this Text, If any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature; hence it is evident, that he is in Christ, or else he is not a new Creature, first in Christ and then a new Creature; as Dr Preston doth well observe. A new Creature is one that hath his abiding in Christ, one that lives in Christ, as his stock; If you ask him the question, that the two Disciples asked Christ, Master, where dwellest thou? He may say, in Christ.
That a new Creature is one that lives in ⟨p. 123⟩Christ, and hath his abiding in him, as his stock, is evident by the language of Christ, Joh. 15.6. If any man abide not in me, he is cast forth, as a branch withered &c.
That a new Creature is one that lives in ⟨p. 123⟩