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The Christians great interest
The Christians great interest: or A short treatise, divided into two parts the first whereof containeth, the trial of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly, the way how to attain it: wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. By W. Guthrie, minister of the gospel in Scotland.The Christians great interest: or A short treatise, divided into two parts the first whereof containeth, the tryal of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly, the way how to attain it: wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. By W. Guthrie, minister of the gospel in Scotland.
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1681
The Trial of a Saving Interest in CHRIST.The Tryal of a Saving Interest in CHRIST.
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.
Answ. I shall shortly hint some of these excellent communications, and I hope upon a right discovery of them •here will be but small ground found for the jealous complaints of many gracious people.
Answ. I shall shortly hint some of these excellent comunications, and I hope upon a right discovery of them •here will be but small ground found for the jealous com•laints of many gracious people.
First, (besides these convictions of the Spirit of God, which use to usher Christs way unto the Souls of men, and these also which afterwards do ordinarily attend them) ••ere is a Seal of the Spirit of God spoken of in Scripture, the principal thing whereof is the Sanctifying work •f the Holy Ghost imprinting the draughts and lineaments […] Gods Image, and revealed will upon a man, as a seal• […] signet doth leave an impression and stamp of its likeness upon the thing sealed: so it is 2 Tim. 2. 19. The ••undation of God—having this seal, The Lord knoweth ⟨p. 60⟩them who are his. And let every one that nameth the […] of Christ depart from iniquity: And thus I conceive, […] Seal to be called a Witness, 1 John 5. 10. He that […] lieveth, hath the witness in himself, that is, the grou•• upon which an interest in Christ is to be made out approved, are in every believer; for he hath somewh•• of the sanctifying work of Gods Spirit in him, which […] a sure (although not always a clear and manifest) w ness.