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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.
1Divine patience, or patience considered, as a divine quality, is the issue and cream of many graces; It is a Diamond in the midst of a Triangle, (to wit • a virtue between stupidity, despising the chastisement of the Lord, and fainting under it; it is a grace which keeps a man quiet within, when all things are troublous, and very unquiet without; it is a grace which possesses a man of himself, when dispossessed of all earthly comforts; it is a special work of the Spirit of God in the soul, enabling a man not stupidly, but quietly to bear whatsoever God lays upon him, without feeling murmuring, or repining, against God or man, in heart or in tongue, or fainting under his chastising hand.
1Divine patience, or patience considered, as a divine quality, is the issue and creame of many graces; It is a Diamond in the midst of a Triangle, (to wit • a vertue between stupidity, despising the chastisement of the Lord, and fainting under it; it is a grace which keeps a man quiet within, when all things are troublous, and very unquiet without; it is a grace which possesses a man of himself, when dispossessed of all earthly comforts; it is a speciall work of the Spirit of God in the soul, enabling a man not stupidly, but quietly to bear whatsoever God lays upon him, without feeling murmuring, or repining, against God or man, in heart or in tongue, or fainting under his chastising hand.
- 1Divine patience, What?
When it is thus with a sufferer for Christ, then may he be said to suffer according to the will of Christ in this particular (to wit) patiently.