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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.
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.
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 Goate, than of a Sheep; it is rather a demonstrator of a child of this world, than of a Disciple of Christ: for the Crosse is a reculicen which all Christs Disciples must weare, as he himself tels us: In a word, it is rather a badge of an heire of Hell, than of an heire 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 tels us, Whom the Lord loveth he Chastiseth, yea, scourgeth.
The most people in the world, fetch their evidence of Gods Love, from Gods liberal dispensations of his gifts, either natural or supernatural, eternal or internal, transient gifts: I have this gift liberally dispensed to me of God, saith one, and I have that gift liberally dispensed to me of God, saith another. I have health (saith one) and I have wealth, saith another; I have no changes, but constant prosperity, through my policy in winding with the times: I have esteem in the world, and success in every thing I go about or take in hand; therefore doubtless God loves me;1 Ergo. Another looks higher than this, and saith, I have natural parts, and supernatural gifts liberally dispensed to me of God, above what ⟨p. 162⟩