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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.
The major is true: for a condition so necessary, as without it no faith, surely we should find it in some Converts; yea, it must be in all. Will these Worthies say, this condition was found in the Converts in Acts 2. in Acts 8. in the Jailer, Acts 16.? I think they will not affirm it; when they cried out, What shall we do to be saved? Did Paul or Peter tell them, Are you quiet, content subject to the will of God, in case you think he will not save you, but damn you for ever, never give you his love? If you be so prepared, then I will tell you what you shall do to be saved. Here was a fair opportunity for Paul, and so for Peter, to declare what was requisite to true preparation: but here we have not the least syllable like it. Whence if what these two Worthies have preached and printed be right, then though Paul saith, Acts 20.20, 27. He had not shunned to declare all the counsel of God, I shall be bold to say, Paul was not faithful; for here is a condition so requisite, in their esteem, that without it there can be no right preparation for Christ, no Faith: and Paul did not teach the Jailer, nor Peter his Converts, one syllable of it.
The major is true: for a condition so necessary, as without it no faith, surely we should find it in some Converts; yea, it must be in all. Will these Worthies say, this condition was found in the Converts in Acts 2. in Acts 8. in the Jaylour, Acts 16.? I think they will not affirm it; when they cried out, What shall we do to be saved? Did Paul or Peter tell them, Are you quiet, content subject to the will of God, in case you think he will not save you, but damn you for ever, never give you his love? If you be so prepared, then I will tell you what you shall do to be saved. Here was a fair opportunity for Paul, and so for Peter, to declare what was requisite to true preparation: but here we have not the least syllable like it. Whence if what these two Worthies have preached and printed be right, then though Paul saith,