A31952:481
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.
3. Fruitfulness in righteousness, issuing from moral principles is usually more in the eyes of men, than in the eye of God: Such as are fruitful in righteousness from their own principles, are more studious to make all things seem good and glorious in the eyes of men, than they are to approve the righteousness of their hearts or ways to God; but he that is fruitful in righteousness as a branch in the vine, is more studious and careful to approve the uprightness of his heart and actions to God in all things, than to make things seem good in the sight of men; He is more desirous to be fruitful then to seem fruitful.
3. Fruitfulnesse in righteousnesse, issuing from morall principles is usually more in the eyes of men, than in the eye of God: Such as are fruitfull in righteousnesse from their own principles, are more studious to make all things seem good and glorious in the eyes of men, than they are to approve the righteousnesse of their hearts or wayes to God; but he that is fruitfull in righteousnesse as a branch in the vine, is more studious and carefull to approve the uprightnesse of his heart and actions to God in all things, than to make things seem good in the sight of men; He is more desirous to be fruitfull then to seem fruitfull.
4. Fruitfulness in righteousness, proceeding from natural and moral principles, is usually attended with much pride inwardly in heart, if not outwardly in expression; and the more fruitful this man is,1 the more proud he is: contrariwise fruitful in righteousness as a branch in the vine, is attended with much humility; a man that is fruitful in righteousness, as a branch in the vine, sees that he hath no sap, but what he hath from the stock, into which he is ingrafted; no sufficiency in himself to any good; he sees that his good motions, affections and actions, flow all from Christ, and therefore he humbly ascribes all to Christ; The glory of all his fruitfulness, he lays on Christs shoulders, he shall bear the glory, saith this soul, he dares take none to himself, though tempted thereunto by Satan, but says of Christ, as Mephibosheth did of Ziba, Let him take all, who is all in all, Who am I? and what am I, that I should offer, after this manner. Thus his being filled with the fruits of righteousness, redounds to the Glory of Christ, who is his righteousness: The more fruitful a branch in the vine is, the lower he is.