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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.
Fourthly, He magnifies God for his patience, that he did not take him long since in his way of sinning, cut him off, and send him to that place where no mercy is known; but God had been just. This patience of God affects his heart.
Fifthly, He stands and wonders at that mercy, how God can possibly love such a one, blot out all his guilt, justify him, that is the strangest word, and translate him from being the Devils nasty sty, to make him a habitation for his holy Spirit.
Fifthly, He stands and wonders at that mercy, how God can possibly love such a one, blot out all his guilt, justifie him, that is the strangest word, and translate him from being the Devils nasty sty, to make him a habitation for his holy Spirit.
These things are found; but to come to such a positive habitual frame of Contentation, to have no love of God, no Grace, but to be given up to lusts and damned, if God will have it so, I dare not own it.
Only here, that I may leave nothing to trouble any tender Christian, when I say these things are found, my meaning is not, that they are found in all before grace or union with Christ; for, as I said, some the Lord sanctifies in their infancy, others he drops into insensibly under the means; the seed of Grace is cast in, they cannot tell when nor how, but the Lord got into them by degrees: There may be clearer discoveries of a mans sin, vileness, loathsomeness, after a man is in Christ; as