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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.
Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not, saith the •ext; what shall I hence conclude, That a branch in Christ, a true believer, a new Creature, is totally freed from the power, act, and being of sin, so that he doth not nor cannot sin actually? (God forbid) this ⟨p. 133⟩were to give the Scripture the lye, which saith, That in many things we sin all, even [we] that are born again.
Whosoever abideth in him, sinneth not, saith the •ext; what shall I hence conclude, That a branch in Christ, a true beleever, a new Creature, is totally freed from the power, act, and being of sinne, so that he doth not nor cannot sinne actually? (God forbid) this ⟨p. 133⟩were to give the Scripture the lye, which saith, That in many things we sin all, even [we] that are born again.
And if we say that we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us, 1 Joh. 1.8. And Rom. 7.23. a new Creature saith, I see a Law in my members, rebelling against the law of my mind, and leading me captive to the Law of sin, which is in my members. He doth not say (I saw) as one speaking of the time past, before conversion, but [I see] as one speaking in the (present Tense) and of the time after conversion; he doth not say, bringing me into captivity to the Law of sin (which was) in my members, but (unto the law of sin which is in my members;) by all which it is evident, That this Text means no such thing as immunity and freedom from the motions, act, or being of sin: He therefore that shall hence conclude, That he is totally freed from the power and being of sin, so that he doth not nor cannot sin no more than the glorified Saints, or Christ himself, doth make of a touch stone, a mill-stone to grind him to powder.