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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
EVIDENCE FOR HEAVEN. › Union with Christ, Evidence for Heaven.
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.
Faith is the grace, and the only grace, whereby we are justified before God, by it we eat of the Tree of Life, (Jesus Christ) and live for ever: It is therefore the fittest grace of all, to satisfy Conscience in this weighty matter, and to make up conclusions from, about our eternal estate. This Satan knows full well, and therefore when he would flatter a man to Hell, he persuades him, that his faith is right good, when indeed there is no such matter; and when he would overthrow all hope of Heaven in a man, and drag him into despair, he persuades him, that his faith, though never so good, is but a feigned and counterfeit thing, and the poor soul, is ready to say, Amen.
Faith is the grace, and the only grace, whereby we are justified before God, by it we eate of the Tree of Life, (Jesus Christ) and live for ever: It is therefore the fittest grace of all, to satisfie Conscience in this weighty matter, and to make up conclusions from, about our eternall estate. This Satan knows full well, and therefore when he would flatter a man to Hell, he perswades him, that his faith is right good, when indeed there is no such matter; and when he would overthrow all hope of Heaven in a man, and drag him into despaire, he perswades him, that his faith, though never so good, is but a feigned and counterfeit thing, and the poore soul, is ready to say, Amen.
It mainly concerns all persons therefore, that would here get a good Evidence for Heaven, throughly to try their faith, whether it be a shield of Gold, or but a shield of Basel; whether it be an unfeigned, or but a feigned faith; whether it be a justifying, or but a temporary faith; whether it be a faith that justifies before God, or but only before men?
It mainly concerns all persons therefore, that would here get a good Evidence for Heaven, throughly to try their faith, whether it be a shield of Gold, or but a shield of B•asle; whether it be an unfeigned, or but a feigned faith; whether it be a justifying, or but a temporary faith; whether it be a faith that justifies before God, or but only before men?