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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.
Ninthly, A man fruitful in righteousness §9from his own principles, brings forth fruit from the good treasure of his brain, and such maxims as are fastened there; this did the Pharisees, and thus do all mere moralists; But a man fruitful in righteousness, as a branch in the vine, brings forth fruit out of the good treasure of his heart, as Christ affirmeth, Luk. 6.45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things, or, that which is good. A branch in the vine, out of an ho•est and good heart bringeth forth fruit, so saith Christ, Luk 8.15.
Ninthly, A man fruitful in righteousnesse §9from his own principles, brings forth fruit from the good treasure of his brain, and such maxims as are fastened there; this did the Pharisees, and thus do all meer moralists; But a man fruitful in righteousnesse, as a branch in the vine, brings forth fruit out of the good treasure of his heart, as Christ affirmeth, Luk. 6.45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things, or, that which is good. A branch in the vine, out of an ho•est and good heart bringeth forth fruit, so saith Christ, Luk 8.15.
Here nore one main difference that is between an evil man and a good,1 or a mere formalist and a branch truly in the vine; in an evil man, or a mere formalist,2 his heart is the treasury of all the evil, which he bringeth forth, but not of the good; but a good man, or a branch truly in the vine, his heat is the treasury of the good fruit which he bringeth forth: in the heart of an evil man (to wit) a man out of Christ, dwelleth no good thing, nothing that is truly and spiritually good, therefore (out of it) can come no such fruit: But in the heart of a