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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.
The Position of the Apostle, is confirmed by a plurality of witnesses, both Solomon and Christ concur with Paul herein; Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth, saith Solomon, Prov. 3.12. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, saith Christ, Rev. 3.19. The truth of this position hath been experimented by a cloud of witnesses, by all the Sons and Daughters of God, that have gone before us unto Glory, and will be by all that shall follow after us, and therefore needs not much proving. The Apostle tells us, That through ⟨p. 161⟩many afflictions, we must enter into the Kingdom of God. And in ver. 8. of this Chap. saith, that if ye be without Chastisement (whereof all are partakers) then are ye Bastards, and not Sons.
The Position of the Apostle, is confirmed by a plurality of witnesses, both Solomon and Christ concurre with Paul herein; Whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth, saith Solomon, Prov. 3.12. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten, saith Christ, Rev. 3.19. The truth of this position hath been experimented by a cloud of witnesses, by all the Sonnes and Daughters of God, that have gone before us unto Glory, and will be by all that shall follow after us, and therefore needs not much proving. The Apostle tells us, That through ⟨p. 161⟩many afflictions, we must enter into the Kingdom of God. And in ver. 8. of this Chap. saith, that if ye be without Chastisement (whereof all are partakers) then are ye Bastards, and not Sonnes.
Immunity from correction, is rather a Character of a Bastard, than of an Adopted Son of God; it is rather a note of an Ismael, than of an Isaac; it is rather the mark of a Goat, than of a Sheep; it is rather a demonstrator of a child of this world, than of a Disciple of Christ: for the Cross is a reculicen which all Christs Disciples must wear, as he himself tells us: In a word, it is rather a badge of an heir of Hell, than of an heir of Heaven; of a reprobate, rather than an elect, and adopted Child of God, for Chastisement is the universal lot of all Gods Children, as this Text tells us, Whom the Lord loveth he Chastiseth, yea, scourgeth.