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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.
And this is that seal, which I am now to speak of, and that which this Text points at; This may be called Gods privy seal, sealing a soul unto the day of redemption; Of this seal the Apostle speaks, Ephes. 1.13. In whom after the believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, &c.
And this is that seal, which I am now to speak of, and that which this Text points at; This may be called Gods privy seal, sealing a soul unto the day of redemption; Of this seal the Apostle speakes, Eph•s. 1.13. In whom after ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise, &c.
Before I speak of the appearances of this seal of the Spirit of God, I shall here note two or three things.
1This seal of Confirmation, God sets upon some of his people, but this he doth not set upon all his people; the Spirit of God doth thus bear witness with our spirits in some of Gods children, but it doth not thus bear witness ⟨p. 195⟩with our spirits, in all Gods children. Neither doth it thus bear witness, at all times in those in whom it doth at some: the Scriptures afford frequent examples of this.
1This seal of Confirmation, God sets upon some of his people, but this he doth not set upon all his people; the Spirit of God doth •hus bear witness with our spirits in some of Gods children, but it doth not thus bear witness ⟨p. 195⟩