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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.
That he is one joined to the Lord Jesus Christ,1 is evident from the words of this Text, If any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature; Here it is granted, That a new Creature is in Christ; E•go, it must needs then be granted, That he is joined to Christ; for to be in a thing, is more then to be joined to it, and the greater doth necessarily comprehend the lesser; but according to the meaning of the Apostle here, these expressions of being in Christ, and being joined to Christ, I conceive comes all to one.
That he is one joyned to the Lord Jesus Christ,1 is evident from the words of this Text, If any man be in Christ, he is a new Creature; Here it is granted, That a new Creature is in Christ; E•go, it must needs then be granted, That he is joyned to Christ; for to be in a thing, is more then to be joyned to it, and the greater doth necessarily comprehend the lesser; but according to the meaning of the Apostle here, these expressions of being in Christ, and being joyned to Christ, I conceive comes all to one.
- 1A new Creature is one joined to the Lord Jes•s Christ, and one Spirit with him▪ This is his seventh demonstration.A new Creature is one joyned to the Lord Jes•s Christ, and one Spirit with him▪ This is his seven•h demonstration.
That he that is thus united to Christ, is one Spirit with Christ, is evident by the Language of the Apostle,