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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.
Sound assurance of the Love of God, makes §12the soul long for the full fruition of it;1 this seal of the holy Spirit of God, moves the soul ⟨p. 204⟩nothing more, to desire to be dissolved, to be with God; how long, Lord? saith this soul, come Lord Jesus, come quickly: I have a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, saith a soul thus sealed, Phil. 1.23.
Sound assurance of the Love of God, makes §12the soul long for the full fruition of it;1 this seal of the holy Spirit of God, moves the soul ⟨p. 204⟩nothing more, to desire to be dissolved, to be with God; how long, Lord? saith this soul, come Lord Iesus, come quickly: I have a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, saith a soul thus sealed, Phil. 1.23.
- 1Sound assurance makes the soul to triumph over death the king of terrors, as appears in Paul, Rom. 8.38 39. & 1 Cor. 15.55.
The soul thus sealed by the Spirit of God, longs to be with God, yet labours to wait patiently for him, all the days of his appointed time; Job was thus sealed by the Spirit of God, when he said, I know that my Redeemer liveth; he was assured that Christ was his Redeemer, and he longed to be with him, yet patiently waits for him, not a day or two, but all the days of his appointed time,