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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
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Eighth Argument. That cannot be the essence of saving Faith, which leaveth a true Believer sinking under the sense of his sin and misery without support.
Eighth Argument. That cannot be the essence of saving Faith, which leaveth a true Belieuer sinking under the sense of his sin and misery without support.
But this particular persuasion and assurance Christ is mine, &c. (affirmed to be saving faith) leaves a true Believer under the sense of sin and misery without support.
But this particular perswasion and assurance Christ is mine, &c. (affirmed to be saving faith) leaves a true Believer under the sense of sin and misery without support.
Ergo, It is not the essence of saving faith.
For the minor first. Here is a Christian, and one, whom if you examine as we have opened the work of faith, can give some good answer to it: this Christian is under the sense of his own vileness, guilt, and wretchedness, ready to sink: I pray how will you support him? Thus, though thou art guilty, vile, abominable, yet there is enough in Christ to heal thee, pardon thee, redeem thee, and reconcile thee to God: yea, saith the Soul, I doubt not of it; but how shall I get him? How? by faith, that is the way the Gospel tells us. Ay but, saith this Soul, I cannot believe: What no? Do you know what faith is? A particular persuasion and assurance that Christ is mine, and that my sins are pardoned, &c. Ah, saith the Soul, if this be faith, I am damned indeed, Without are unbelievers,