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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 conclusion must follow the weaker part; and I think my experience is weaker than Gods testimony; then let the conclusion follow my experience, and so be certain with the certainty of experience; and if so, then be sure, the particular persuasion and assurance Christ is mine, cannot be the essence of saving faith. For there is no faith at all in that conclusion. However make the best of it, it is but mixed.
The conclusion must follow the weaker part; and I think my experience is weaker than Gods testimony; then let the conclusion follow my experience, and so be certain with the certainty of experience; and if so, then be sure, the particular perswasion and assurance Christ is mine, cannot be the essence of saving faith. For there is no faith at all in that conclusion. However make the best of it, it is but mixed.
I find that learned Author twice asserting, that divine propositions, 1de fi de; being more obscure and less evident, they are therefore the weaker (eo nomine deteriores) because of the Inevidentia in this Divine proposition, He that believeth in Christ the Mediator, his sins are forgiven, therefore there is a Debilitas, a weakness in this proposition: whence if the Syllogism be formed.
I find that learned Author twice asserting, that divine propositions, 1de fi de; being more obscure and less evident, they are therefore the weaker (eo nomine deteriores) because of the Inevidentia in this Divine proposition, He that believeth in Christ the Mediatour, his sins are forgiven, therefore there is a Debilitas, a weakness in this proposition: whence if the Syllogisme be formed.
- 1p. 33. & 205.