A31952:592
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 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⟩many others have: I have wit and understanding, &c. more than many others: I have knowledge, and I have utterance, and herein excel many: I have esteem among the Godly wise, and a name to live: I have a form of Godliness, and a shadow of every grace of the Spirit, many Talents in my hand, and hence conclude, God doubtless loves me, whoever he hates, Ergo. But neither of these argue well for their sonship, nor their eternal estate; for no where doth the Scripture make any of these signs of Gods special love, or our adoption.
The most people in the world, fetch their evidence of Gods Love, from Gods liberall 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 pollicy in winding with the times: I have esteem in the world, and successe in every thing I go about ortake in hand; therefore doubtlesse 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⟩many others have: I have wit and understanding, &c. more than many others: I have knowledg, and I have utterance, and herein excell many: I have esteem among the Godly wise, and a name to live: I have a form of Godlinesse, and a shadow of every grace of the Spirit, many Talents in my hand, and hence conclude, God doubtlesse loves me, whoever he hates, Ergo. But neither of these argue well for their sonneship, nor their eternal estate; for no where doth the Scripture make any of these signs of Gods special love, or our adoption.