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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.
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.
He that believeth in Christ Mediator, his sins are forgiven. But I believe in Christ Mediator, (which I know by experience.) Therefore my sins are pardoned.
He that believeth in Christ Mediatour, his sins are forgiven. But I believe in Christ Mediatour, (which I know by experience.) Therefore my sins are pardoned.
Here the conclusion must follow the more ineyident, and so the weaker part, which is the Major.