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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.
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Answ. This Objection hath had its Answer many times given, therefore I will not stay upon it; the person to whom we speak is to be considered, a serious Christian, who aims at, and drives on for sincerity.
First, The Schoolmen *have distinguished about sorrows, and that distinction is approved by our Orthodox, Learned and Godly Divines†.
- *Aquin. Suppl. q. 3.2.1. Estius Sent. l. 4. p. 1. pag. 236. Valentia. l 4. d. 7. q. 8. p 5.
- †Ames de Consc. l. 2. c. 8. • 3. Dyke. Repent. p. 46. Burges Rofin. fol p. 4•6.
Sorrow is intellectual, spiritual, or sensitive: Or thus, Sorrow is considered, either as it is in the will, and so it is nothing else but the displeasure and dislike of that which the understanding apprehendeth as evil: Or as it is in the sensitive faculty of the Soul, common with us to the beasts.