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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.
2. Internal, or inward; the internal or inward seal of God, is the seal of the holy Spirit of God, metaphorically so called; and this is that which this Text points at.
2. Internall, or inward; the internall or inward seal of God, is the seal of the holy Spirit of God, metaphorically so called; and this is that which this Text points at.
Seals are of a double use, they serve to demonstrate, and to confirm; they signify, and ratify; I speak after the manner of men; Gods seals do no less, they demonstrate, they confirm; But Gods external seals, without the internal seal of the Spirit of God, cannot assure any soul, of the special love of God, nor of his Adoption; many outwardly sealed go to Hell, the outward seals alone, cannot seal any soul unto the day of redemption; It is the inward seal of the holy Spirit of God, that seals us unto the day of redemption, as this Text tells us, Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Seales are of a double use, they serve to demonstrate, and to confirme; they signifie, and ratifie; I speak after the manner of men; Gods seales do no less, they demonstrate, they confirme; But Gods externall seales, without the internall seal of the Spirit of God, cannot assure any soul, of the speciall love of God, nor of his Adoption; many outwardly sealed go to Hell, the outward seales alone, cannot seal any soul unto the day of redemption; It is the inward seal of the holy Spirit of God, that seales us unto the day of redemption, as this Text tells us, Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
The internal, or inward divine seal of the ⟨p. 185⟩