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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.
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?
1In the searching of thy Soul, for this grace of faith, or any other renewing grace, thou art to have respect to the truth of it, more than to the measure and strength of it: Christ hath so, he absolutely requires truth of belief, but not strength of belief: Nay he so esteems truth of belief, that wheresoever he findeth it, in the least measure, he will accept it and reward it, with Eternal Life; he will not quench the smoking flax; He will not suffer that soul that hath but the least grain of true faith to miscarry.
1In the searching of thy Soul, for this grace of faith, or any other renewing grace, thou art to have respect to the truth of it, more than to the measure and strength of it: Christ hath so, he absolutely requires truth of belief, but not strength of belief: Nay he so esteems truth of belief, that wheresoever he findeth it, in the least measure, he will accept it and reward it, with Eternal Life; he will not quench the smoking flax; He will not suffer that soul that hath but the least grain of true faith to miscary.
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