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

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.

But to make the essence of saving Faith to lye in a particular persuasion, or assurance that Christ is mine, forgiveness ⟨p. 188⟩mine, is to make the essence of saving Faith to lye, or subsist only in an act of the understanding.

But to make the essence of saving Faith to lye in a particular perswasion, or assurance that Christ is mine, forgiveness ⟨p. 188⟩mine, is to make the essence of saving Faith to lye, or subsist only in an act of the understanding.