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The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have…
The mourners cordial against excessive sorrow discovering what grounds of hope Gods people have concerning their dead friends / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Five lines from II Corinthians]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
1. Actual Assurance proceeds from the joint witnessing of the Spirit of God with our Spirit, Rom. 8.16. till therefore he seals, and confirms, and testifies to our evidences, we shall for all them remain in suspense. A man may have really in him the things which accompany salvation, and have also such a discovery made to him, of their being in him, which he dares not to deny, and yet be much afraid of himself, suspect a mistake, and question whether they be not counterfeit: his confident and comfortable persuasion of the truth and reality of these things depends upon the confirmation given by the Spirit of God to his soul: but this notwithstanding, ⟨p. 108⟩his State is mean while as safe and secure, as if he had the greatest satisfaction about it, though it be not so clear to him; he shall as certainly be saved as another, though he be not so well satisfied in himself concerning it; where God gives Grace, he will without fail give Salvation.
1. Actual Assurance proceeds from the joynt witnessing of the Spirit of God with our Spirit, Rom. 8.16. till therefore he seals, and confirms, and testifies to our evidences, we shall for all them remain in suspense. A man may have really in him the things which accompany salvation, and have also such a discovery made to him, of their being in him, which he dares not to deny, and yet be much afraid of himself, suspect a mistake, and question whether they be not counterfeit: his confident and comfortable perswasion of the truth and reality of these things depends upon the confirmation given by the Spirit of God to his soul: but this notwithstanding, ⟨p. 108⟩his State is mean while as safe and secure, as if he had the greatest satisfaction about it, though it be not so clear to him; he shall as certainly be saved as another, though he be not so well satisfied in himself concerning it; where God gives Grace, he will without fail give Salvation.