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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 4: Of Compunction.
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.
Concerning these fears and sorrows, which men of the world, strangers to Conversion, call, melancholy, madness, and I know not what, send them to the Physicians, and Apothecaries shop for cure, I shall not insist upon them; what other Divines have at large written about the clearness, ⟨p. 75⟩greatness, permanency of these fears and sorrows, is well known; and to some so well known, that it hath caused great fears in them that their Conversion was never sound, because they have not experienced those great and permanent fears and sorrows, they preach and write of. Having spoken to Preparations more largely in my first Chapter, (to which I refer the Reader) I shall add but a few Positions here, and so come to the resolution of one Question about them, which I know those who have been troubled about these preparatory legal works, will be willing to read.
Concerning these fears and sorrows, which men of the world, strangers to Conversion, call, melancholy, madness, and I know not what, send them to the Physitians, and Apothecaries shop for cure, I shall not insist upon them; what other Divines have at large written about the clearness, ⟨p. 75⟩greatness, permanency of these fears and sorrows, is well known; and to some so well known, that it hath caused great fears in them that their Conversion was never sound, because they have not experienced those great and permanent fears and sorrows, they preach and write of. Having spoken to Preparations more largely in my first Chapter, (to which I refer the Reader) I shall add but a few Positions here, and so come to the resolution of one Question about them, which I know those who have been troubled about these preparatory legal works, will be willing to read.
First Position. Though many times great sins produce, and great sinners meet with great fears, great sorrows and terrors, yet not always so.
First Position. Though many times great sins produce, and great sinners meet with great fears, great sorrows and terrors, yet not alwayes so.