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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.
The soul that is thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God (to wit) with the seal of demonstration, and the seal of Confirmation.
1. Doth earnestly long, and desire to be more sealed; He or she, that hath truth of grace, doth earnestly long for, and endeavour after, more grace, higher degrees of grace; He still presses towards the mark, Phil. 3.13. He prays for, and endeavours after, what Christ hath promised, in the name of the whole Trinity to give, Cant. 1.11. Borders of gold, with studs of silver, augmentation of all grace.
1. Doth earnestly long, and desire to be more sealed; He or she, that hath truth of grace, doth earnestly long for, and indeavour after, more grace, higher degrees of grace; He still presses towards the mark, Phil. 3.13. He prayes for, and indeavours after, what Christ hath promised, in the name of the whole Trinity to give, Cant. 1.11. Borders of gold, with studs of silver, augmentation of all grace.
The soul that is by the Spirit of God, persuaded and assured of the Fatherly Love of God, counts not that it hath enough, but longs still to be more and more confirmed in it; the taste that it hath of the sweetness and goodness of this wine, makes it long to drink deeper of it, and to desire flagons of it,