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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.
A new Creature, is one that minds the things of the Spirit, so saith the text, Rom. 8.5. They that are after the sl•sh, do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; As carnal hearts mind carnal things, so spiritual hearts, mind spiritual things; a new Creature minds the things of the Spirit, after the rule of the Spirit, the Word of God; He minds the things of the Spirit in the first place, he minds them savourly, chiefly and principally, more than the things of the flesh, and declares it by following after them industriously; The apprehension of the love and favour of God,1 and that which leads thereunto (to wit) the pure Ordinances of God, are the only jewels which he esteems and follows after, and for the acquiring ⟨p. 138⟩and retaining of these, he will part with all the good of the world, and count it but dung, as is evident in the parable of the merchant-man, who sold all to buy the pearl: A new Creature, his great care, desire, and endeavour is, to be more new: O that I were more dead to sin, more alive to righteousness! that I were less in the flesh, more in the spirit! less in my self, more in Christ! saith a new Creature; And these are the things which he minds and follows after.
A new Creature, is one that minds the things of the Spirit, so saith the text, Rom. 8.5. They that are after the sl•sh, do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit; As carnall hearts mind carnall things, so spirituall hearts, mind spirituall things; a new Creature minds the things of the Spirit, after the rule of the Spirit, the Word of God; He minds the things of the Spirit in the first place, he minds them savourly, chiefly and principally, more than the things of the flesh, and declares it by following after them industriously; The apprehension of the love and favour of God,1 and that which leades thereunto (to wit) the pure Ordinances of God, are the only jewels which he esteems and follows after, and for the acquiring