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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.
In the sixth place, Sound assurance produces joy, 1 Pet. 1.8. Faith of evidence and joy, are inseparably united, they are Twins born at once, and if assurance die, joy dies with it; In whomsoever the Spirit of God is a Spirit of Confirmation, he is a Spirit of Consolation; the soul that is assured of the love of God towards it, cannot but rejoice in it; spiritual Consolation doth not spring so naturally from any thing, as it doth out of the witness of the ⟨p. 201⟩Spirit; joy may be (I mean some kind of joy) where assurance is wanting, but assurance never goes without joy, spiritual joy.
In the sixt place, Sound assurance produces joy, 1 Pet. 1.8. Faith of evidence and joy, are inseperably united, they are Twins born at once, and if assurance die, joy dies with it; In whomsoever the Spirit of God is a Spirit of Confirmation, he is a Spirit of Consolation; the soul that is assured of the love of God towards it, cannot but rejoyce in it; spiritual Consolation doth not spring so naturally from any thing, as it doth out of the witness of the ⟨p. 201⟩Spirit; joy may be (I mean some kind of joy) where assurance is wanting, but assurance never goes without joy, spirituall joy.
There is a generation (as Solomon tells us) which in the midst of laughter, their heart is sad; and there is a generation, which in the midst of sadness, their heart rejoiceth; And those which are thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God are they, such is the power of sound assurance, that it will make (I mean instrumentally) the heart to joy, whilst the outward man sorrows; it will fill the heart, with joy unspeakable, and full of glory, whilst the outward man is filled with shame and contempt; yea▪ sound assurance is for the most part, then strongest, and shows it self with most vigour and light somenesse within, when the greatest damp of outward discomforts, lye upon the person, and the world most frowns upon him, or persecutes him, for his frowardness and faithfulness, in the cause of God. When Paul and Silas had much cause to sigh, for their usage amongst men, they then sang and rejoiced,