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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.
Thirdly, They were such evils, that though they were actually under them, yet they might have union with God, and live in communion with him; though strangers in an enemies Land, yet not strangers to God. Thus we read of precious Saints in captivity, Daniel, &c. So, The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, Lam. 3.24. My God will hear me, Micah 7.7. God would be a Sanctuary to them, Ezek. 11.16. though scattered among Heathen: promise, He will not cast them away, nor abhor them, Levit. 26.44.
Fourthly, These evils were means in the hand of God to bring them home to God; when they tasted the fruit of their rebellion, it helped to bring them to repentance: in a strange Land they learned acquaintance with God, when they were strangers to him in their own Land: thus Ephraim found it, or shall find it, Jer. 31.18, 19, 20. Thus God promiseth, Isai. 27.9.
Fifthly, They were such evils as they had gracious promises of deliverance from them; and they have been in part (when the two Tribes, and a few of the ten Tribes with them, returned) and shall be to the life fulfilled, when the time of their ingrafting comes: Rom. 11.15, ⟨p. 115⟩