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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 seventh place, Sound assurance produceth humility; this seal of confirmation, when set by the Spirit of God, doth work the soul to more humility of mind, then usually is in others; The Apostle Paul is a notable instance hereof, he was thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God, when he said, I am persuaded that neither Death nor Life, Angels, Principalities, nor Powers, nor any other thing, shall be able to separate me, from the Love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord; and then did be serve the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, as himself saith, Act 20.19. Sound assurance is heart-humbling, heart-mollifying.
In the seventh place, Sound assurance produceth humility; this seal of confirmation, when set by the Spirit of God, doth work the soul to more humility of mind, then usually is in others; The Apostle Paul is a notable instance hereof, he was thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God, when he said, I am perswaded that neither Death nor Lfe, Angels, Principalities, nor Powers, nor any other thing, shall be able to separate me, from the Love of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord; and then did be serve the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, as himself saith, Act 20.19. Sound assurance is heart-humbling, heart-molifying.
Sound assurance, leaves not the soul without a holy jealousy of it self, nor without a Christian watch; This is evident in the Apostle Paul, Rom. 8.38, 39. compared with 1 Cor. 9.26, 27. I am persuaded (saith he) that neither Death, nor Life, nor any other Creature, shall be able to separate me from the Love of God, &c. Yet was he not hereby taken off from, but rather incited to a holy jealousy of, and watchfulness over himself and all his ways, as appears by the forecited place.
Sound assurance, leaves not the soul without a holy jelousie of it self, nor without a Christian watch; This is evident in the Apostle Paul,