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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.
AN EPISTLE, TO THE READER.
There are two things which ought to be the chief aim of all those who desire to live holily, and dye happily. The one is, to get an interest in Christ, the other, to get an assurance of their interest in him. The first of these is absolutely necessary to Salvation. The second, is absolutely necessary, though not to our Salvation, yet to our Consolation. Without the first, we cannot dye happily. Without the second, we cannot dye comfortably. It must not be denied, but that a man may have true Grace, and yet want the Assurance of it, he may be a Child of Light in darkness, 1he may have the direct act of Faith, and yet want the ⟨image 2⟩reflect act, he may have the Sanctifying work of the Spirit, and yet want the witnessing work. (Though no man can have the witnessing work, who hath not the Sanctifying, yet a man may have the sanctifying, and yet want the witnessing work of the Spirit) Joseph may be alive and yet his Father Jacob may think him dead, true grace may be in us, and yet we may not only not know it, but believe the contrary.
THere are two things which ought to be the chief aim of all those who desire to live holily, and dye happily. The one is, to get an interest in Christ, the other, to get an assurance of their interest in him. The first of these is absolutely necessary to Salvation. The second, is absolutely necessary, though not to our Salvation, yet to our Consolation. Without the first, we cannot dye happily. Without the second, we cannot dye comfortably. It must not be denied, but that a man may have true Grace, and yet want the Assurance of it, he may be a Child of Light in darknesse, 1he may have the direct act of Faith, and yet want the ⟨image 2⟩reflect act, he may have the Sanctifying work of the Spirit, and yet want the witnessing work. (Though no man can have the witnessing work, who hath not the Sanctifying, yet a man may have the sanctifying, and yet want the witnessing work of the Spirit) Ioseph may be alive and yet his Father Iacob may think him dead, true grace may be in us, and yet we may not only not know it, but beleeve the contrary.