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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.
But contrary wise, the Soul in which Satan counterfeits these seals of the Spirit of God, when it is once thus sealed by him, is many times ready to say as Esau, I have enough; and with Laodicea, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, neither Grace, Ordinances, nor Ministers; leaves Manna, and loathes it, declines and deserts the Ordinances, Churches, and Ministers of Christ, and falls off from, or (at least) grows cold and customary in duty, which evidently demonstrates it to be Satan's seal, and not the seal of the holy Spirit of God, that is upon it.
But contrary wise, the Soul in which Satan counterfeits these seales of the Spirit of God, when it is once thus sealed by him, is many times ready to say as Esau, I have enough; and with Laodicea, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing, neither Grace, Ordinances, nor Ministers; leaves Manna, and loaths it, declines and deserts the Ordinances, Churches, and Ministers of Christ, and fals off from, or (at least) grows cold and customary in duty, which evidently demonstrates it to be Satans seal, and not the seal of the holy Spirit of God, that is upon it.
3. The soul thus sealed by the holy Spirit of God▪ obeys the truth of God, as it is discovered unto him by his Word and Spirit, in his Ministers; and he that doth not apply himself to do this, and yet thinks himself sealed, is but bewitched, his testimony that he hath, is but a bewitching, as the Apostle intimates, Gal. 3.1.
Whosoever therefore thinks himself sealed by the holy Spirit of God, with a seal of demonstration, and with a seal of confirmation, and yet doth not these three things, is deceived, and deceiveth his own heart; it is Satan's seal, and not Gods, that is upon him; his sealing is a sealing to the day of destruction, not a sealing to the day of redemption.