A31952:704
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.
He that is thus sealed by Satan, hath Holiness painted on his outside, but wickedness graven on his heart, as is evident in the Scribes and Pharisees, who were thus sealed by Satan; they were outwardly holy (as Christ shows at large, Mat. 23.) but inwardly very ugly and rotten, and therefore calls them, whited sepulchres, not sealed souls.
He that is thus sealed by Satan, hath Holiness painted on his outside, but wickedness graven on his heart, as is evident in the Scribes and Pharisees, who were thus sealed by Satan; they were outwardly holy (as Christ shews at large, Mat. 23.) but inwardly very ugly and rotten, and therefore calls them, whited sepulchres, not sealed soules.
Civill Holiness may, and many times doth enable a man to carry himself civilly, and holily in the eyes of men; but saving Holiness makes a man studious, and careful to approve himself unto God, in his very thoughts and affections, and in the motions of his heart, as well as the motions of the outward man; yea, this is that which he is most careful of, and industrious about, that is sealed by the holy Spirit of God, his chief work is within doors; his principal care, desire and endeavour, is to approve his heart unto God, and so walk, that he may be accepted of him, and glorify him.
Civill Holiness may, and many times doth enable a man to carry himself civilly, and holily in the eies of men; but saving Holiness makes a man studious, and carefull to approve himself unto God, in his very thoughts and affections, and in the motions of his heart, as well as the motions of the outward man; yea, this is that which he is most carefull of, and industrious about, that is sealed by the holy Spirit of God, his chief work is within doors; his principall care, desire and endeavour, is to approve his heart unto God, and so walk, that he may be accepted of him, and glorifie him.