A31952:748
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.
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, Act. 16.25. When the Apostles did suffer shame for Christ, then did they most rejoice, Act. 5.41. When the People of God were spoiled of their goods, and spoiled in their persons, then did they rejoice; and whence sprang their joy in this disconsolate condition, but from their assurance? They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods [knowing] that they had in Heaven, a better, and enduring substance, Heb. 10.34.
There is a generation (as Solomon tels us) which in the midst of laughter, their heart is sad; and there is a generation, which in the midst of sadnesse, their heart rejoyceth; 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 shews it self with most vigor 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 frowardnesse and faithfulnesse, in the cause of God. When Paul and Silas had much cause to sigh, for their usage amongst men, they then sang and rejoyced,