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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 learned Author saith, that the minor, I believe in Christ, must be de fide, because it cannot be known (quoad modum) without the irradiation of the holy Spirit, which irradiation (for so I think he puts infallibiliter certa & vera in the ablative case to agree with irradiation) is infallibly certain and true.
The learned Author saith, that the minor, I believe in Christ, must be de fide, because it cannot be known (quoad modum) without the irradiation of the holy Spirit, which irradiation (for so I think he puts infallibiliter certa & vera in the ablative case to agree with irradiatione) is infallibly certain and true.
Here we have something that is obscure: What is this irradiation of the Spirit?
Reverend Mr. Bolton mentions several cases and times, 1in which the Spirit doth suggest and justify to a sanctified conscience, with a secret, still, heart-ravishing voice thus, or in like manner, thou art a Child of God, thy sins are pardoned, thou art one of them that shall be saved. That it is with a voice always, he doth not say, but that the Spirit doth so break in upon a Soul in a secret, strange, but clear manner to that Soul, doth so persuade the heart of Gods love, and that it doth exceedingly ravish it for that time, I doubt not of it.
Reverend Mr. Bolton mentions several cases and times, 1in which the Spirit doth suggest and iustifie to a sanctified conscience, with a secret, still, heart-ravishing voice thus, or in like manner, thou art a Child of God, thy sins are pardoned, thou art one of them that shall be saved. That it is with a voice alwayes, he doth not say, but that the Spirit doth so break in upon a Soul in a secret, strange, but clear manner to that Soul, doth so perswade the heart of Gods love, and that it doth exceedingly ravish it for that time, I doubt not of it.