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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 fifth place; a new Creature, is one that groans under the remainder of the old man in him (to wit) the natural propensity which he finds in himself to all evil; the enticing tempter of corrupt nature, which makes him a verse to all good, and prone to all evil, as that which spoils all his good duties, as that which is his greatest burden, bewails it as that alone which makes his condition wretched and miserable, longs earnestly for a total deliverance from this burden of corrupt nature, prays earnestly for strength against all the enticings thereof,1 and rests of Christ by Faith, in the use of all lawful means by him appointed, for a total deliverance at length, and strength against all the enticings thereof, until total deliverance be granted, all which is evident in Paul, Rom. 7.
In the fifth place; a new Creature, is one that groans under the remainder of the old man in him (to wit) the naturall propensity which he finds in himself to all evill; the inticing tempter of corrupt nature, which makes him a verse to all good, and prone to all evill, as that which spoiles all his good dutyes, as that which is his greatest burden, bewailes it as that alone which makes his condition wretched and miserable, longs earnestly for a total deliverance from this burden of corrupt nature, prayes earnestly for strength against all the inticings thereof,1 and rests of Christ by Faith, in the use of all lawfull meanes by him appointed, for a total deliverance at length, and strength against all the inticings thereof, until total delivera•ce be granted, all which is evident in Paul, Rom. 7.