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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. Suffering is of divers sorts, good or bad, according as the true cause of it is; a man may suffer for well doing, or for evil doing, it is to sufferers for well-doing, not to sufferers for evil doing that the Crown is promised.
3. Suffering is of divers sorts, good or bad, according as the true cause of it is; a man may suffer for well doing, or for evill doing, it is to sufferers for well-doing, not to sufferers for evill doing that the Crown is promised.
4. Suffering is either just, or unjust; suffering is always just from God, but not always just from men, it is not to just suffering, but to unjust suffering from men, that this promise is made.
4. Suffering is either just, or unjust; suffering is alwayes just from God, but not alwayes just from men, it is not to just suffering, but to unjust suffering from men, that this promise is made.
5. It is not to sufferers for the evil of sin, nor to sufferers of the evil of sin, to which the Crown is promised: But to sufferers of the evil of punishment for the avoiding of the evil of sin, that it is promised, as •ppears by comparing this Text with some others; Peter explains Pauls meaning here, touching suffering, 1 Pet. 3.14. If ye suffer for righteousness sake, happy are ye, Chap. 4.14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye, &c. Christ concurreth in this, Matth. 5.10, 11, 12