A31952:742
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, The soul that hath this seal,1 or testimony of the Spirit of God, hath a spirit of prayer; in whomsoever the Spirit of God is a Spirit of adoption, he is also a Spirit of supplication; whomsoever the Spirit of God doth assure of the fatherly love of God towards him, he enables to cry Abba, Father, and maketh request for him with unutterable Rhetoric; he enables the soul to pour it self forth to God, in supplication and thanksgiving; this is evident by Gal. 4.6. Rom. 8.15, 26.
Fourthly, The soul that hath this seal,1 or testimony of the Spirit of God, hath a spirit of prayer; in whomsoever the Spirit of God is a Spirit of adoption, he is also a Spirit of supplication; whomsoever the Spirit of God doth assure of the fatherly love of God towards him, he enables to cry Abba, Father, and maketh request for him with unutterable Rhetorick; he enables the soul to pour it self forth to God, in supplication and thanksgiving; this is evident by Gal. 4.6. Rom. 8.15, 26.
- 1He hath the spirit ofprayer, though not the gift of prayer
The soul thus sealed by the Spirit of God, longs after, and delights in, approaches to God, and God approaches to it in all his holy Ordinances; Let me see his countenance, let me hear his voice, saith the soul thus sealed, for sweet is his countenance, and his voice pleasant, ⟨p. 200⟩