A31952:769

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…

Name: Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…
Author: Edmund Calamy

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 ...

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666London: printed for Simon Miller, 1657

[26], 209, [15] p. · 67k words · Wing C240 · ESTC R3864

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EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Spirits witness with our spirits.

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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, Cant. 2 5. The sweetness, strength and comfort which the soul finds in, and by the apprehension of the Love of God, makes it long and labour to apprehend it more: Paul was assured of the Love of God, and he did exceedingly desire, and labour to apprehend it more, as will appear by Rom. 8.38, 39. compared with Phil. 3.12, 13. The apprehension of the Love of God, doth not satiate the soul, but whets it, and sets appetite upon it; and hence it comes to pass, That

The soul that is by the Spirit of God, perswaded 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 tast that it hath of the sweetnesse and goodnesse of this wine, makes it long to drink deeper of it, and to desire flaggons of it, Cant. 2 5. The sweetnesse, strength and comfort which the soul finds in, and by the apprehension of the Love of God, makes it long and labour to apprehend it more: Paul was assured of the Love of God, and he did exceedingly desire, and labour to apprehend it more, as will appear by Rom. 8.38, 39. compared with Phil. 3.12, 13. The apprehension of the Love of God, doth not satiate the soul, but whets it, and sets appetite upon it; and hence it comes to passe, That

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Edmund Calamy 1600–1666

Place

London

Bookseller

Simon Miller

Year

1657

Size

[26], 209, [15] p.

Words

66,636

Catalogue

Wing C240 · ESTC R3864

Text

EEBO-TCP A31952

Passages

881

Sections

Title page

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…

AN APPENDIX, To the Foregoing Discourse. Containing certain rules to be observed by every Person, that hath attained any good assurance of the Love of God, and his own salvation, and desires to retain it.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

AN APPENDIX, To the Foregoing Discourse. Containing certain rules to be observed by every Person, that hath attained any good assurance of the Love of God, and his own salvation, and desires to retain it.

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