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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.
3. Christ was of a just and righteous Spirit;1 so saith the Prophet Zech 9.9. He is just; Christ was not only morally just; but he was Divinely just, as is evident by his Government; the revealed Will of God is the Cannon by which he rules, they which walk contrary unto it, sooner or later he punisheth; and they which walk according to it, he sooner ⟨p. 152⟩or latter rewardeth; He doth judg with righteousness, and reprove with equity, (saith the Prophet) Isai. 11.4.
- 1His government is spiritual, yet external and internal.His goverment is spirituall, yet external and internall.
4. Christ was of a merciful, tender, and compassionate Spirit;1 he had compassion on the souls of his enemies, as that Text, Ezek. 16. ver. 4, 5, 6. with many others show;2 He had compassion on soul and body,3 when he beheld Jerusalem, and thought on her sin and sufferings,4 he pitied her, prayed for her, admonished her, 5and wept over her,