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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.
Secondly, The word affirms, that whosoever is sealed by the holy Spirit of God, with this seal of Confirmation, is first sealed by him with a seal of Demonstration; this seal of the holy Spirit of God is not an antecedent to, but a subsequent of the other seal of Demonstration, it doth not precede, but follow after faith and sanctification; In whom after the believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of ⟨p. 197⟩promise, saith the Apostle, speaking of this seal, Eph. 1.13. Hence it is evident, That a man is first a true believer, he hath first a true faith, a true and real interest in Christ; He is justified, and sanctified, and made a new Creature, before thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God. Here I desire the Reader to note two or three things.
Secondly, The word affirms, that whosoever is sealed by the holy Spirit of God, with this seal of Confirmation, is first sealed by him with a seal of Demonstration; this seal of the holy Spirit of God is not an antecedent to, but a subsequent of the other seal of Demonstration, it doth not precede, but follow after faith and sanctification; In whom after ye believ•d, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of ⟨p. 197⟩promise, saith the Apostle, speaking of this seal, Eph. 1.13. Hence it is evident, That a man is first a true believer, he hath first a true faith, a true and reall interest in Christ; He is justified, and sanctified, and made a new Creature, before thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God. Here I desire the Reader to note two or three things.
First, That it is a true believer only,1 that is capable of this seal of the holy Spirit of God, He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself,