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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.
According then to these two Worthies, in the work of faith, and the Souls closing with Christ, it is not a mans salvation (which is love to himself, and self-love is but a way to hell) which the Soul must aim at so much, but the honour of Christ, and glory of Gods Grace above its own salvation.
To carry on our work the more clearly, I will handle two Questions briefly.
Quest. 1. Whether the Soul, in closing with Christ in effectual Calling, may not lawfully and safely aim at, and eye its own salvation?
Quest. 2. Whether the Lord requires, to the truth of saving Faith, and closing with Christ in the work of effectual Calling, that we eye and aim at the honour of Christ, and exalting of the glory of his Grace above our own salvation?
These two Questions will take in fully what Mr. Rogers and Mr. Shepherd have delivered as to this point, where I pray take the state of the Question aright.