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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.
1. It is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his Will, should suffer out of love to his Will, and he that doth suffer for the Will of Christ, and doth not suffer out of love to the Will of Christ, doth not suffer according to the Will of Christ, This is evident by the Language of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 13.3. Though I give my body to be burned, and have •ot love, it profiteth me nothing; it is as if the Apostle had said, it is the Will of Christ, that I should suffer out of love to him, and if I do not thus, all my suffering is worth nothing, it is not according to the Will of Christ, nor worth any thing in Gods account; it comes to just nothing at last, it profiteth me nothing, &c.
A• all our active obedience, so all our passive obedience, must spring out of love to God,1 as the efficient cause of it, else it is worth nothing with God.
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2. It is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his will, should suffer believingly; this appears thus, It is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his Will, should suffer patiently, joyfully, courageously and perseveringly, but this a man cannot possibly do, except he believe; therefore it follows by necessary consequence, that it is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his Will, should suffer believingly. This is also evident by Scripture,