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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.
1And this is a holy passion of the soul, issuing out of the apprehension of what Christ hath done for it, and will do for it, reviving, elevating, ⟨p. 177⟩and strengthening the soul, and carrying it above it self. It is a wing grace, which whiles the soul is actually possessed of, is thereby carried above it self, above the world, and above Satan.
- 1Divine joy, What?
Faith and joy are the two wings of the soul, which bear it up, both in doing and suffering▪ If either of these be clipped, the soul is much hindered thereby, and exposed to many dangers.
Faith and joy are the two wings of the soul, which bear it up, both in doing and suffering▪ If either of these be c•ipt, the soul is much hindered thereby, and exposed to many dangers.
Joy, as all other graces of the Spirit, hath different degrees in different times and subjects, and is usually greatest in the greatest sufferers, and sufferings for Christ.