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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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10. If thou wouldest still enjoy thy evidence, then labour to profit by all Gods chastisements; ⟨image 124⟩God many times deserts his People, and hides his face from them, because they do not profit by lesser Chastisements; he useth greater rods, because lesser will not serve the turn: Labour therefore to discern Gods design in every stroke of his, and to answer Gods ends in every correction.
10. If thou wouldest still injoy thy evidence, then labour to profit by all Gods chastisements; ⟨image 124⟩God many times deserts his People, and hides his face from them, because they do not profit by lesser Chastisements; he useth greater rods, because lesser will not serve the turn: Labour therefore to discern Gods design in every stroke of his, and to answer Gods ends in every correction.
11. In the next place, If thou wouldest still enjoy thy assurance, then call thy self often to account, and when thou espiest any failings in thy self, speedily humble thy self before the Lord for them, renew Faith and Repentance, seek pardon and reconciliation, apply the Blood of Christ for thy cure, let not Conscience lye under the guilt of any known sin unrepented of; If our hearts condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God, 1 John 3.21. Labour therefore so to try, judge and condemn thy self that thy heart may not condemn thee; Labour so to act Repentance upon every occasion, that conscience may not find any guilt unrepented of, to charge thee with; Labour to prevent conscience herein, by doing that thy self now, that it would do hereafter, by being such a self condemning sinner, that thou mayest avoid a self-condemning conscience: He that is not a self condemning sinner here, shall be sure of a self condemning Conscience hereafter; Therefore O Christians! Judg your selves, that you be not judged of the Lord; condemn your selves, that you be not condemned of conscience (at least not justly.)