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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.
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 ⟨p. 130⟩good man (to wit) a branch truly in the vine, dwelleth a principle of faith and love, from which his fruitfulness springs; these constrain him, or lead him along, as the Apostle speaks, 2 Cor. 5.14. And herein lies the great and main difference, that is between the fruitfulness of a man in Christ, and a man out of Christ, between a branch in the vine, and a mere moralist, both bring forth fruit, good fruit; but the one bringeth it forth out of the treasure of an honest and good heart, and the other doth not so; this Christ confirms in that forecited place, Luk. 6.45.
Here nore one main difference that is between an evill man and a good,1 or a meer formalist and a branch truly in the vine; in an evill man, or a meer formalist,2 his heart is the treasury of all the evill, which he bringeth forth, but not of the good; but a good man, or a branch truly in the vine, his heatt is the treasury of the good fruit which he bringeth forth: in the heart of an evill 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 ⟨p. 130⟩