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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.
For although there may be, and oftentimes is, a contradiction and combat in an unregenerate person, between several and distinct faculties of the soul, the appetite against reason, the will or affections against conscience, yet there never is a contradiction in the same faculty of the soul, in an unregenerate person, neither indeed can there be, for there is nothing in it to oppose; This combat is peculiar to a new Creature, where there is flesh and spirit in the same faculty, and what the one chooseth, the other refuseth, it may therefore well be a Christians touch-stone to try himself by.
For although there may be, and oftentimes is, a contradiction and combate in an unregenerate person, between severall and distinct faculties of the soul, the appetite against reason, the will or affections against conscience, yet there never is a contradiction in the same faculty of the soul, in an unregenerate person, neither indeed can there be, for there is nothing in it to oppose; This combate is peculiar to a new Creature, where there is flesh and spirit in the same faculty, and what the one chuseth, the other refuseth, it may therefore well be a Christians touch-stone to try himself by.
There is yet another way, whereby a man may be said to commit sin, which is far more dangerous than the former, yea, remediless, and that is, when a man doth wilfully and obstinately oppose that which the Word of God, and the Spirit of God doth throughly convince his conscience is the Truth, and ought to be followed, out of mere malice, scorn and contempt, and this is that which (I think) this Text points at chiefly; but (thus) a Child of God, a member of Christ, a new Creature ⟨p. 136⟩cannot commit sin, 1because his seed remaineth in him, as the Apostle here speaks, He that thus commiteth sin is of the Devil, and sealed by him to Hells eternity,