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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
Appendix: AN APPENDIX, To the Foregoing Discourse. Containing certain rules to be observed by eve…
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8. In the eight place, If thou wouldst still retain thy assurance, rest not satisfied, with any measure of assurance attained, but still la•our to increase thy assurance; count not thy self to have attained, or to have apprehended assurance enough, but forget what is behind, and reach forth to that which is before; follow after more, Press towards the mark, as the Apostle did, Phil. 3.12, 13, 14. Labour for increase of assurance; Labour for the riches (for all riches) of the full assurance of understanding, as the Scripture speaks *Labour ⟨image 123⟩to apprehend the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of the Love of God, and to know the Love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, to be filled with all the fullness of God, as the Scripture speaks, Eph. 3.18, 19.
8. In the eight place, If thou wouldst still retain thy assurance, rest not satisfied, with any measure of assurance attained, but still la•our to increase thy assurance; count not thy self to have attained, or to have apprehended assurance enough, but forget what is behind, and reach forth to that which is before; follow after more, Presse towards the mark, as the Apostle did, Phil. 3.12, 13, 14. Labour for increase of assurance; Labour for the riches (for all riches) of the full assurance of understanding, as the Scripture speaks *Labour ⟨image 123⟩to apprehend the breadth, and length, and depth, and heighth of the Love of God, and to know the Love of Christ, which passeth knowledg, to be filled with all the fullnesse of God, as the Scripture speaks,