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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.
Sol. To find out this, Consider, 1. That those which the Lord here speaks of, though they were the Lords own People by profession, ⟨p. 169⟩yet they were not all such by true conversion, they were not all beloved, after a special manner.
Sol. To find out this, Consider, 1. That those which the Lord here speaks of, though they were the Lords own People by profession, ⟨p. 169⟩yet they were not all such by true conversion, they were not all beloved, after a speciall manner.
2. Know, That God may, and often times doth, Chastise in wrath, and yet in love too; When God Chastiseth his own Adopted Child, he many times doth it in wrath, and displeasure towards his sin, but always in love to his person.
2. Know, That God may, and often times doth, Chastise in wrath, and yet in love too; When God Chastiseth his own Adopted Child, he many times doth it in wrath, and displeasure towards his sin, but alwayes in love to his person.
Wouldest thou then know, whether thou art Chastised of God in love, or not; Consider, whether thou art an Adopted Child of God, or not; Try thy self by what hath been formerly said, and if thou findest, that thou art truly such, conclude thou mayest certainly, That all thy Chastisements do spring from love; for whatsoever strokes God smites such an one with, he doth it in Love to his person, (this is a sure rule) though God speak bitter things against thee, as Job complains he did against him, and do bitter things unto thee, yet all springs from his love, though he bide his face from thee for a while, and chastise thee with scourging, he doth it in love to thy person; all Gods dealings with thee, spring from his love, his love is the efficient whatsoever be the meritorious or immediate cause of thy Chastisement; When God is angry with thee, and smites thee for thy sin, it is in love to thy person, he loves thee still. Is Ephraim my dear son, is he a pleasant Child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still, &c.