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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 fourth and last Act that completes this receiving of Christ, and makes it saving, is, the will consenting, choosing, or embracing of Christ, as God propounds and offers him, that is, Christ his Person clothed with all his Offices, and complete work of Redemption. Thus and no other ways is Christ propounded and offered; thus and no other ways must and doth the will embrace him, in consenting, choosing, I embrace him.
The fourth and last Act that compleats this receiving of Christ, and makes it saving, is, the will consenting, chusing, or embracing of Christ, as God propounds and offers him, that is, Christ his Person cloathed with all his Offices, and compleat work of Redemption. Thus and no other wayes is Christ propounded and offered; thus and no other wayes must and doth the will embrace him, in consenting, chusing, I embrace him.
God doth not offer Offices and Redemption without a Person, nor a Person without Offices and Redemption, nor a Person with one or two Offices, and part of Redemption, but complete, as he hath appointed him a fit Saviour, as fit as can be: less will not serve, more is needless: who receives Christ his Person with Offices right, receives him with complete Redemption; or to receive Christ with his complete Redemption, is to receive him with his Offices; so that here is no cause of stumbling. Thus then you have it:
God doth not offer Offices and Redemption without a Person, nor a Person without Offices and Redemption, nor a Person with one or two Offices, and part of Redemption, but compleat, as he hath appointed him a fit Saviour, as fit as can be: less will not serve, more is needless: who receives Christ his Person with Offices right, receives him with compleat Redemption; or to receive Christ with his compleat Redemption, is to receive him with his Offices; so that here is no cause of stumbling. Thus then you have it: