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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. The soul thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God, bears the Image of God, the Image of God is stamped upon it; as the seal is, so is the print which it makes; the Spirit of God is a holy Spirit, and the soul that is sealed by it is a holy soul: He is renewed in the spirit of his mind; Holiness is stamped upon his heart and spirit▪ 1and from thence spreads it self through the whole man, and through the whole life; from the time of conversion, regeneration, wrought by the Spirit of God, makes the heart pure and holy, as well as the outward man; therefore the Apostle calls it, Holiness of truth, Ephes. 4.24. and saith in another place, The Spirit is Life, because of righteousness. Christ makes it a note of a good man, that he can derive goodness from within, Luk 6 45. Therefore I may safely pitch upon it, That Holiness engraven upon the heart and spirit of a man, and from thence, declaring it self in the whole man, and in the whole life, is vigour fit and but fit to give the denomination of a soul thus sealed; regeneration wrought by the Spirit of God is begun in the inward ⟨p. 189⟩man; it is universal, and goes through every faculty of the soul, and every part and member of the body, through the whole life and conversation; he that is truly sanctified, is sanctified throughout, and holy in all manner of conversation; he that is sealed by the holy Spirit of God, bears the Image of God in all these.
2. The soul •hus sealed by the holy Spirit of God, beares the Image of God, the Image of God is stamped upon it; as the seal is, so is the print which it makes; the Spirit of God is a holy Spirit, and the soul that is sealed by it is a holy soul: He is renewed in the spirit of his mind; Holiness is stamped upon his heart and spirit▪ 1and from thence spreads it self through the whole man, and through the whole life; from the time of conversion, regeneration, wrought by the Spirit of God, makes the heart pure and holy, as well as the outward man; therefore the Apostle calls it, Holiness of truth,