A31952:663
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 man doth then declare Christian courage, when he is not ashamed, nor afraid to own a good cause, or appear in it, because of suffering; when he can suffer for the Gospel, or any Ordinance of God, and truly say with the Apostle, kThough I suffer these things, nevertheless I am not ashamed; I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, nor of the cause of God. And when with the three Children, lhe slights the torment, and the tormentor; resolving in the strength of Christ, to do his duty, whatsoever ⟨p. 179⟩he suffer for it, and to cleave close to the word and will of Christ, whether deliverance, or no deliverance arise here; when he is more afraid to displease God than man; when he is more afraid of losing things spiritual and eternal, than of losing things temporal; when he chooses to suffer, rather than sin; when he endureth the Cross, and despiseth the shame; when he refuseth base deliverance,3 and yieldeth his body rather than his cause, (his cause being good) into a Tyrants hand.
A man doth then declare Christian courage, when he is not ashamed, nor afraid to own a good cause, or appear in it, because of suffering; when he can suffer for the Gospel, or any Ordinance of God, and truly say with the Apostle, kThough I suffer these things, neverthel•ss I am not ashamed; I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, nor of the cause of God. And when with the three Children, lhe slights the torment, and the tormentor; resolving in the strength of Christ, to do his duty, whatsoever ⟨p. 179⟩he suffer for it, and to cleave close to the word and will of Christ, whether deliverance, or no deliverance arise here; when he is more afraid to displease God than man; when he is more afraid of losing things spiritual and eternal, than of losing things temporal; when he chooses to suffer, rather than sinne; when he endureth the Cross, and despiseth the shame; when he refuseth base deliverance,