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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.
And this wonder is to be performed by our Jesus, John 6.39, 40, 44, 54. This work is too hard for the Socinians Jesus, therefore are the Socinians as faulty and erroneous in the Doctrine of the Resurrection: Corpora haec quae nunc circum ferimus resurrectura non credimus, saith Smalcius. Now where is that Mystery? where is that manifold wisdom of God, Ephes. 3.9, 10. O ye blessed Angels, that ye are so desirous to look into, and find out? Here is no such rare Invention in this Socinians Jesus, to take up the thoughts of a man with admiration, much less of Angels. But to see God manifest in the flesh, 1 Tim. 3.16. to see the second person in the Trinity united to that holy thing conceived in the womb of the Virgin, to see him made under the Law, yea, made a Curse, to see him made sin who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, 2 Cor. 5. last. For God to find a way how to justify a sinful condemned wretch, and yet he be just, true and holy, none of these Attributes suffer, and yet Mercy triumph in saving a sinner; yea, that he should find out a way to give his offended Justice greater satisfaction, while he showeth mercy in saving sinners, than he could ever have received, either by the confusion or annihilation of them: to see him reconciling a world of obstinate and rebellious enemies unto himself; and all this by the blood and righteousness of our Jesus, God in our flesh: to see him incorporating Christ and his Church, things in their own distinct natures as unapt for mixture as fire and water: here is a mystery indeed, here is manifold wisdom of God indeed, worthy to set the blessed Angels on work to find out, worthy to set heaven and earth admiring: And now we can see good reason, why it is said, Worship him all ⟨p. 161⟩ye Angels, Heb, 1.6. But the Socinian Jesus hath no such matter of wonder, nor any reason why Man or Angel should worship him.
And this wonder is to be performed by our Jesus, John 6.39, 40, 44, 54