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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.
Fourthly note, That the blood and the water may, and sometimes do, bear witness, where the Spirit of God doth not thus bear witness with our spirits, that we are the adopted children of God: But the Spirit of ⟨p. 198⟩God doth never thus bear witness, where the blood, and the water do not bear witness. Christs blood doth satisfy for sin, and his Spirit cleanse from sin, wheresoever his Spirit doth thus bear witness; He therefore that thinks he is sealed by the Spirit of God with a seal of Confirmation, and yet is not sealed with the seal of Demonstration, is but deluded and bewitched by Satan, and in a fools Paradise.
Fourthly note, That the blood and the water may, and sometimes do, bear witness, where the Spirit of God doth not thus bear witness with our spirits, that we are the adopted children of God: But the Spir•t of ⟨p. 198⟩God doth never thus bear witness, where the blood, and the water do not bear witness. Christs blood doth satisfie for sinne, and his Spirit cleanse from sinne, wheresoever his Spirit doth thus bear witness; He therefore that thinks he is sealed by the Spirit of God with a seal of Confirmation, and yet is not sealed with the seal of Demonstration, is but deluded and bewitched by Satan, and in a fools Paradice.
In the third place, whomsoever the holy Spirit of God doth seal, with a seal of Confirmation, whomsoever he doth assure of the fatherly love of God towards him, he doth qualify with the disposition of a son (to wit) love to his heavenly Father, fear of offending him, desire, care, and endeavour to walk before him in all well-pleasing, obeying his voice out of love,1 mourning for its offences, and depending on God its heavenly Father for all things.
In the third place, whomsoever the holy Spirit of God doth seal, with a seal of Confirmation, whomsoever he doth assure of the fatherly love of God towards him, he doth qualifie with the disposition of a son (to wit) love to his heavenly Father, fear of offending him, desire, care, and endeavour to walk before him in all wel-pleasing, obeying his voice out of love,