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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.
Answ. This Text doth not say, that he that is joined to the Lord is totally freed from these corruptions, but that He is one Spirit, he is one Spirit with the Lord Jesus Christ, he is one with him in Spirit: And this a man may be said to be, when he hath these Divine qualifications of spirit forementioned, truly wrought in him, though weakly and imperfectly, and much flesh, much corruption remaining in him; This must be granted, otherwayes no man in this life could be said to be joined to the Lord, and one Spirit with him.
Answ. This Text doth not say, that he that is joyned to the Lord is totally freed from these corruptions, but that He is one Spirit, he is one Spirit with the Lord Iesus Christ, he is one with him in Spirit: And this a man may be said to be, when he hath these Divine qualifications of spirit forementioned, truely wrought in him, though weakly and imperfectly, and much flesh, much corruption remaining in him; This must be granted, otherwayes no man in this life could be said to be joyned to the Lord, and one Spirit with him.
2. But secondly, A true sense of these corruptions, accompanied with a loathing of them, and warring against them in faith, is so far from rendering thee such as the Objection speaks of, that it strongly argues the clean contrary (to wit) That thou art indeed joined to the Lord, and one Spirit with him; that thou art incorporate into Christ, and made new by him; For it is from Christ, and that new quality of grace, which he hath infused into thy soul, that this sense of corruption and antipathy springs; hence it is that corrupt nature becomes a burden on the spirit, naturally it is not so.
2. But secondly, A true sense of these corruptions, accompanied with a loathing of them, and warring against them in faith, is so farre from rendering thee such as the Objection speaks of, that it strongly argues the clean contrary (to wit) That thou art indeed joyned to the Lord, and one Spirit with him; that thou art incorporate into Christ, and made new by him; For it is from Christ, and that new quality of grace, which he hath infused into thy soul, that this sense of corruption and antipathy springs; hence it is that corrupt nature becomes a burden on the spirit, naturally it is not so.