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

Secondly, Not doth it directly empty a man of himself. By consequence a man may gather such a Truth, or Proposition; If Christ be yours, then you are emptied of self, i. e. of that self which stands in opposition to Christ, because faith in Christ doth thus empty a man of this self; but the particular persuasion and assurance that Christ is mine, doth not empty a man directly of this self; for observe many of these who have this assurance (as they conceive) and whom you cannot beat ⟨p. 190⟩off from their deluded and deluding persuasions, they do not know what it is to be emptied of self, but are under the dominion of it.

Secondly, Not doth it directly empty a man of himself. By consequence a man may gather such a Truth, or Proposition; If Christ be yours, then you are emptied of self, i. e. of that self which stands in opposition to Christ, because faith in Christ doth thus empty a man of this self; but the particular perswasion and assurance that Christ is mine, doth not empty a man directly of this self; for observe many of these who have this assurance (as they conceive) and whom you cannot beat ⟨p. 190⟩off from their deluded and deluding perswasions, they do not know what it is to be emptied of self, but are under the dominion of it.

Fourth Argument. That is not the essence of Faith which is not found in all sound Believers.

But the particular persuasion or assurance that Christ is mine, is not found in all Believers.

But the particular perswasion or assurance that Christ is mine, is not found in all Believers.