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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
THE Real Christian, OR, A Treatise of Effectual Calling. › Chapter 3: Of Conviction.
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.
CHAP. III. Of Conviction.
Conviction follows Illumination, as I said before; 1there cannot be Conviction without Light: The Spirit is a practical Teacher; he doth not teach the elect now converting, notions about sin, and the state of a sinner, but applieth his doctrine to the person, thou art the man, this miserable state is thine; when he heard the Minister before he could turn off the Sermon, as not belonging to him; it may be he will say, the Person met with such a one to day, and adds his Troth or Faith to it, but it did not concern himself; or if it came so close that his Conscience tells him it did concern him, yet he will have some shift to evade the power of the Word: but now the Spirit comes to work, this trade ceases, now all is applied to himself. Nathan to help David to see the greatness of his sin, sets up a light, by a Parable (Ficta arguunt) nothing less then death must be the punishment if David be Judge, 1 Sam. 12.5. but then Nathan applies the Parable, De te narratur Fabula: David is convinced, and Conviction brings forth Confession, with sound Repentance.
COnviction follows Illumination, as I said before; 1there cannot be Conviction without Light: The Spirit is a practical Teacher; he doth not teach the elect now converting, notions about sin, and the state of a sinner, but applieth his doctrine to the person, thou art the man, this miserable state is thine; when he heard the Minister before he could turn off the Sermon, as not belonging to him; it may be he will say, the Person met with such a one to day, and adds his Troth or Faith to it, but it did not concern himself; or if it came so close that his Conscience tells him it did concern him, yet he will have some shift to evade the power of the Word: but now the Spirit comes to work, this trade ceases, now all is applied to himself. Nathan to help David to see the greatness of his sin, sets up a light, by a Parable (Ficta arguunt) nothing less then death must be the punishment if David be Judge,