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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.
That fruitfulness in righteousness, proceeding from natural and moral principles only, is attended with these forementioned effects, is evident in the Scribes and Pharisees, who were men very fruitful in righteousness from their own principles, yet did pick and choose in the ways of God; Tithe mint and anise, and omit the weightier matters of the Law, and of the Gospel too; strain at a Gnat, and swallow a Camel, as Christ tells them, Mat. 23. were very industrious to make all they ⟨p. 126⟩did, seem good and glorious in the eyes of men, but cared not how rotten their hearts were; the more fruitful they were, the more proud they were; all this Christ taxes them with, Mat. 23. and thereupon calls them, not new Creatures, not fruitful branches in the v•nt, but whited Sepulchres, graves, fools, blind, Hypocrites, &c.
That fruitfulnesse in righteousnesse, proceeding from natural and morall principles only, is attended with these forementioned effects, is evident in the Scribes and Pharisees, who were men very fruitfull in righteousnesse from their own principles, yet did pick and chuse in the wayes of God; Tythe mint and annise, and omit the weightier matters of the Law, and of the Gospel too; strain at a Gnat, and swallow a Camel, as Christ tells them, Mat. 23. were very industrious to make all they ⟨p. 126⟩did, feem good and glorious in the eyes of men, but cared not how rotten their hearts were; the more fruitfull they were, the more proud they were; all this Christ taxes them with, Mat. 23. and thereupon cals them, not new Creatures, not fruitfull branches in the v•nt, but whited Sepulchers, graves, fools, blind, Hypocrites, &c.