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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.
In these words the Apostle lays before us, things quite contrary to these (to wit) chastisement and scourging, as signs of Gods love; Here is love written in Characters, a hand that every one cannot read, a hand that few can read right; Here is love wrapped up in a rod, which none but a loving and beloved child, can draw out, or well apprehend; none but a child, savingly endued with the Spirit of his Heavenly Father, can see his love, when he feels his rod, or argue his sonship,1 from his chastisement. To fetch an evidence of Gods Love, and a mans own Adoption from Gods Chastisements and Scourgings, is peculiar to a Child of God, and it is his prerogative, thus to do.
In these words the Apostle lays before us, things quite contrary to these (to wit) chastisement and scourging, as signs of Gods love; Here is love written in Characters, a hand that every one cannot read, a hand that few can read right; Here is love wrapped up in a rod, which none but a loving and beloved child, can draw out, or well apprehend; none but a child, savingly indued with the Spirit of his Heavenly Father, can see his love, when he feels his rod, or argue his sonneship,1 from his chastisement. To fetch an evidence of Gods Love, and a mans own Adoption from Gods Chastisements and Scourgings, is peculiar to a Child of God, and it is his prerogative, thus to do.
It is not every Adopted Child of God neither, that can thus argue his sonship; I am Chastised of God, therefore I am beloved of him; I am scourged more than many others, therefore doubtless I am beloved more than others: It must be a child, grown to some maturity in grace, that must thus conclude; Whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth, &c.