The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

It is one thing for a man to be prepared, to lay hold on Christ, another to be so prepared, to say truly, Christ is mine: between preparation for Christ, and the Souls saying Christ is mine, there must come in another Act, as the ground of this, such an Act, as Christ will own this Soul to be his, and that is, the reception of him upon his terms; if Christ will say, this Soul is mine, then may that Soul say, Christ is mine; but not else to any true comfort.

The Minor needs no proof: for Ministers in pressing all men to believe Christ is theirs, forgiveness theirs, is to press most men to believe a lye, is so evident to them that look on their Congregations, that it doth not deserve Arguments so much to prove it, as tears to lament it.

Second Argument. That which makes the essence of saving Faith to lye or subsist only in an Act of the understanding, that is not the essence of saving Faith.