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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.
For Clemens Romanus, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, I find not much, the occasion of that Epistle did not lead him to speak of the Verson of Christ, he contents himself with the phrase of the Apostle, calling Christ as the Apostle, Heb. 1.3. [Greek or Hebrew]. 1The brightness of his (that is Gods, of whom he spake before) magnificence, being so much greater than the Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name: The Angels are ministering Spirits, but to the Son he saith, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, set thou at my right hand, &c. I think he intends his Divinity, in his second Epistle, of which only we have a Fragment: beginning his Epistle, [Greek or Hebrew]. And after, pag. 6. ⟨image 18⟩speaking of Jesus Christ our Saviour, saith of him, [Greek or Hebrew]. How far those words are from Christs satisfaction in his first Epistle, the Reader may judge: 2He gave his blood for us, and his flesh for our flesh, and his Soul for our Soul. And for our Justification, (which concerns the Socinian Doctrine also) We who are called in Christ Jesus, 3are justified not by our wisdom, understanding, piety, or works which we have wrought in purity and holiness of heart, but by Faith, by which the Almighty God hath justified all from the beginning.
For Clemens Romanus, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, I find not much, the occasion of that Epistle did not lead him to speak of the Verson of Christ, he contents himself with the phrase of the Apostle, calling Christ as the Apostle, Heb. 1.3. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 1The brightness of his (that is Gods, of whom he spake before) magnificence, being so much greater than the Angels, as he hath obtained a more excellent Name: The Angels are ministring Spirits, but to the Son he saith, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, set thou at my right hand, &c. I think he intends his Divinity, in his second Epistle, of which only we have a Fragment: beginning his Epistle, . And after, pag. 6.