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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.
Now let us consider all the Scriptures quoted out of the old Testament, we find Levit. 26. God having given his Statutes to Israel, makes the Sanction of his Law, by Arguments suitable to a rational Creature. 1. He promiseth good things if they will be obedient. 2. He threateneth them with heavy judgments if they will be rebellious; one whereof is most insisted upon in this latter part of the Chapter, and the verse 41. quoted refers to this judgment, the scattering of them among the Heathen their enemies: yet verse 44. When they were among their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, &c. In the other Texts quoted they were under these judgments threatened.
Now let us consider all the Scriptures quoted out of the old Testament, we find Levit. 26. God having given his Statutes to Israel, makes the Sanction of his Law, by Arguments sutable to a rational Creature. 1. He promiseth good things if they will be obedient. 2. He threatneth them with heavy judgments if they will be rebellious; one whereof is most insisted upon in this latter part of the Chapter, and the verse 41. quoted refers to this judgment, the scattering of them among the Heathen their enemies: yet verse 44. When they were among their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, &c. In the other Texts quoted they were under these judgments threatned.
Whence we observe:
First, All these evils threatened, and under which they lay, were external, bodily, temporary: read the Chapter in Leviticus, read the Lamentations from the first Chapter to the Texts quoted, and observe other verses in the same Chapter, the next verse to the 29. which carrieth the fairest proofs, if the question were the same, 30, 31, 32, 33, &c. so the verses after 39. which is his other proof, read from the 29. verse to the 55. verse, where the matter they complain of was not the question in hand, but external judgments, under which they were humbled: yet we find in the 24. verse, this Soul saying, The Lord is my portion,