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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.
8. The will of Christ is, That he that suffers for his will, should aim at his Honour and Glory therein; This appears thus; Whether you eat or drink▪ or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God, saith the Text, 1 Cor. 10.31. That is, do it so that God may have glory thereby, do it aiming at the Honour and Glory of God therein; Hence I argue thus.
8. The will of Christ is, That he that suffers for his will, should aim at his Honour and Glory therein; This appeares thus; Whether you eat or drink▪ or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God, saith the Text, 1 Cor. 10.31. That is, do it so that God may have glory thereby, do it aiming at the Honour and Glory of God therein; Hence I argue thus.
If it be the will of Christ, that I should aim at his Honour and Glory in all that I do, then it is the will of Christ, that I should aim at his Honour and Glory, in all that I suffer, for suffering is doing: But it is the will of Christ, that I should aim at his Honour and Glory, ⟨p. 181⟩in all that I do: Therefore it is the will of Christ, that I should aim at it, in all that I suffer.
A man may then be said to aim at the Honour and Glory of Christ, in suffering, when he makes that his direct, chief and utmost end, in all that he suffers; when he makes the Honour and Glory of Christ, the final cause of all his sufferings; when he suffers not out of vain glory, but that Christ may be magnified thereby, when a man doth thus suffer for the will of Christ, then doth he suffer according to the will of Christ, in this particular.