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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.
Lastly, A fruitful branch in the vine, is usually §12most pulled and cudgelled, •ressed and oppressed; Joseph was a fruitful branch in the ⟨p. 132⟩vine, even a fruitful bough by a well, whose branch runs over the wall, yet the Text tells us, That the Archers sorely grieved him, they shot at him, and hated him, Gen. 49.22, 23. As it was with Joseph, so it is usually with other fruitful branches in the vine, Satan and men stirred up by Satan, do impugn, molest and trouble them more than they do mere moralists, this Jesus Christ hinted to his Disciples, when he told them, In the world ye shall have tribulation.
Lastly, A fruitfull branch in the vine, is usually §12most pulled and cudgelled, •ressed and oppressed; Ioseph was a fruitfull branch in the ⟨p. 132⟩vine, even a fruitfull bough by a well, whose branch runs over the wall, yet the Text tels us, That the Archers sorely grieved him, they shot at him, and hated him, Gen. 49.22, 23. As it was with Ioseph, so it is usually with other fruitfull branches in the vine, Satan and men stirred up by Satan, do impugne, molest and trouble them more than they do meer moralists, this Jesus Christ hinted to his Disciples, when he told them, In the world ye shall have tribulation.
Lay all these together, and make a touch-stone of them to try thy fruitfulness by, and according as thou findest it, agree or disagree with them, make up the conclusion.