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The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…
The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianism ... / by Giles Firmin ...The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God is drawing the soul to Christ ... : to which is added, in the epistle to the reader, a few words concerning Socinianisme ... / by Giles Firmin ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1670
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.
Fourth Position. For any man to make the way of Gods working with him, to be the way to which he will tie up all others, is little better then high tyranny.
Fourth Position. For any man to make the way of Gods working with him, to be the way to which he will tye up all others, is little better then high tyranny.
God hath not tied up himself to one way; why must yours be the only way? Yet this I have observed in some Ministers (men of great spirits and parts) who in their preaching (may I not say also in printing?) have pressed upon people that particular way they found God came to them in; because God did handle them thus, therefore he must do so with all. One man is not a fair Copy, saith Mr. Shepherd; and this is very true. God takes a man of a high lofty spirit, and batters him, with such or such workings: Must the same be found in all others?
God hath not tyed up himself to one way; why must yours be the only way? Yet this I have observed in some Ministers (men of great spirits and parts) who in their preaching (may I not say also in printing?) have pressed upon people that particular way they found God came to them in; because God did handle them thus, therefore he must do so with all. One man is not a fair Copy, saith Mr. Shepherd; and this is very true. God takes a man of a high lofty spirit, and batters him, with such or such workings: Must the same be found in all others?
Fifth Position. Though God is very various in the manner of his working, when he converts or draws the soul to Christ; yet the work wrought is in all the same; there is no variety in the work wrought.