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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.
Answ. The meaning of it (•s I humbly conceive) is this, That a true believer, one that lives in Christ, and Christ in him, one that […] again, and made a new Creature, sinne• •ot as an unregenerate person doth, he give• not himself over to the commission of any known sin, neither allows himself in the omission of any known duty; He is not a willing slave to ⟨p. 134⟩any sin; He sins not knowingly, without damping and quenching, in some measure, for some time the actings of grace, and the Spirit of God in him, He doth not commit sin; He doth commit sin in the Apostles sense (as I conceive) which doth sin of purpose,1 and with the consent of the whole will, and with the whole sway of his affections, this every one in the state of nature doth, he sins with the consent of the whole will, and with the whole sway of his affections, and must needs do so, because he hath no principle fastened on those faculties to cross him, therefore in sinning, he doth the evil which he would do, the evil which he loves.
Answ. The meaning of it (•s I humbly conceive) is this, That a true beleever, one that lives in Christ, and Christ in him, one that 〈…〉 again, and made a new Creature, sinne• •ot as an u•regenerate person doth, he give• not himself over to the commission of any known sinne, neither allows himself in the omission of any known duty; He is not a willing slave to ⟨p. 134⟩any sin; He sins not knowingly, without damping and quenching, in some measure, for some time the actings of grace, and the Spirit of God in him, He doth not commit sin; He doth commit sinne in the Apostles sense (as I conceive) which doth sin of purpose,