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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.
In the tenth place, A man whose fruitfulness in righteousness, springs from natural and moral principles only, his fruit doth not remain, but rots before it is ripe, falls before it is fit to be gathered: How much fruit soever the best mere moralist brings forth, he brings none at all to perfection, as these Texts here quoted do excellently and elegantly set forth, Job 15.33. He shall shake off his unripe fruit, as the vine, and cast off his flower, as the Olive, Mat. 13.6. And when the Sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had not root, they withered away, And bring no fruit to perfection, Luk. 8.14. Here we have the period of the fruitfulness of the best mere moralist, set down by the holy Ghost, all his fruit comes to just nothing at last: But contrariwise, he that is fruitful in righteousness, as a branch in the vine, his fruit remaineth and kindly ripeneth, as appears by Joh. 15.16. I have chosen you, and ordained you, saith Christ of the living branches of the vine, that ye should bring forth fruit, and that your fruit ⟨p. 131⟩should remain: And it is said of such an one in Jer. 17.8. That he shall not cease from yielding fruit: and Luk. 8.15. He brings forth fruit with patience: and Psal. 1.3. He bringeth forth his fruit in his season; By all which it is evident, That a branch truly in the vine, hath this privilege and Character, beyond the best mere moralist or formalist whatsoever, how little soever his fruit of righteousness seems to be, either in his own eyes or the eyes of other men, yet his fruit remaineth and kindly ripeneth, it cometh to perfection at the length.
In the tenth place, A man whose fruitfulnesse in righteousnesse, springs from naturall and moral principles only, his fruit doth not remain, but rots before it is ripe, fals before it is fit to be gathered: How much fruit soever the best meer moralist brings forth, he brings none at all to perfection, as these Texts here quoted do excellently and elegantly set forth,