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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.
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.
- 1Note.
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, Joh. 14.1. where Christ making a speech •o his Disciples to fit them for suffering, bids them believe, thereby declaring, that his Will was, that they should suffer believingly; and intimating, That if they did not suffer believingly, they did not suffer according to his will, although they suffered for his will.
2. It is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his will, should suffer beleevingly; this appears thus, It is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his Will, should suffer patiently, joyfully, couragiously and perseveringly, but this a man cannot possibly do, except he beleeve; therefore it follows by necessary consequence, that it is the Will of Christ, that he that suffers for his Will, should suffer beleevingly. This is also evident by Scripture, Ioh. 14.1. where Christ making a speech •o his Disciples to fit them for suffering, bids them beleeve, thereby declaring, that his Will was, that they should suffer beleevingly; and intimating, That if they did not suffer beleevingly, they did not suffer according to his will, although they suffered for his will.