A55299:486
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ,…
An answer to the discourse of Mr. William Sherlock, touching the knowledge of Christ, and our union and communion with him by Edward Polhill ..., Esquire.
London: printed for Ben. Foster, 1675
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.
Mr. Shepherd Jaith, 1That men tired and weary in themselves, go to Christ to remove their sins: If they get these sins subdued and removed; if they find power to do better, they hope to be saved, (here is the evidence of Sanctification) whereas thou mayst be damned, and go to the Devil at last, though thou dost escape all the pollutions of the World; and that not from thy self, and thine own strength: but from the knowledge of Christ: Woe to you if you dye in this state (with your sins ⟨p. 565⟩mortified and subdued by Christ) and the reason is, because this is to come to Christ, to suck juice from him, to maintain his own Berries (his own stock of Graces) Alas! he is but the Ivy, he is no Member, nor Branch in this Tree: And hence he never grows to be one with Christ: So that Holiness and Obedience is no evidence of our Union to Christ, though we fetch strength from Christ to do his will; we may only grasp about Christ all this while, as the Ivy about the Oak; but never be united to him, and become one with him.
Mr. Shephard Jaith, 1That men tyred and weary in themselves, go to Christ to remove their sins: If they get these sins subdued and removed; if they find power to do better, they hope to be saved, (here is the evidence of Sanctification) whereas thou mayst be damned, and go to the Devil at last, though thou dost escape all the pollutions of the World; and that not from thy self, and thine own strength: but from the knowledge of Christ: Woe to you if you dye in this state (with your sins ⟨p. 565⟩mortified and subdued by Christ) and the reason is, because this is to come to Christ, to suck juyce from him, to maintain his own Berries (his own stock of Graces) Alas! he is but the Ivy, he is no Member, nor Branch in this Tree: And hence he never grows to be one with Christ: So that Holiness and Obedience is no evidence of our Ʋnion to Christ, though we fetch strength from Christ to do his will; we may only grasp about Christ all this while, as the Ivy about the Oak; but never be united to him, and become one with him.
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