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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.
3. Chastisements sanctified, make a man humble,1 vile in his own eyes; My soul hath them still in remembrance, (saith the Church of her afflictions) and is bowed in me, Lam. 3.20. I am black (saith the Spouse, when under the sun of persecution) by my Mothers Children. Look not upon me, because I am black, &c. The Churches afflictions were sanctified, and hence it was, that she was humbled by them, and become vile in her own eyes.
4. Chastisements sanctified, wean a man from the world, mortify in him the love of the world, and deaden his affections to the noblest vanities of the world; they draw the heart from all things here below, and work it to a holy contempt of them, and enhance the price of grace and glory.
4. Chastisements sanctified, wean a man from the world, mortifie in him the love of the world, and deaden his affections to the noblest vanities of the world; they draw the heart from all things here below, and work it to a holy contempt of them, and inhance the price of grace and glory.
5. They drive the soul to God, and endear communion with him; they will make a man pray frequently, and pray fervently; Seek the Lord early, and seek him earnestly, wrestle with God in prayer,