The real Christian, or, A treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God…

To conclude, Art thou afraid thy faith is not sound, because thou didst aim at thy salvation? I will be bold to tell thee, thy faith is unsound, and thou didst never close with Christ truly, if thou didst not close with him for thy salvation: Thou poor abused Christian, didst not receive Jesus? Did not the Father call thee to Jesus? If you never received Jesus, you never received Christ as lyet: I pray what is Jesus? What doth this signify? Is it not a Saviour? Good Lord, that ever Christians should be so abused, blinded, by a Devil, that they should not see, that it is impossible for them to receive a Christ, but they must receive Jesus Christ, they must receive a Saviour, and yet make their faith worth nothing, because they aimed at their own salvation: Will you be for ever fooled thus? Come, come, friend, leave your cavilling, your simple, silly, foolish quarrellings, I tell thee, Christ is a glorious Saviour, and will have abundance of glory in thy salvation: And where is Christ like to have it most, but in those, who being most sensible of their horrid, vile, undone and miserable condition through the guilt of their sin, and slavery of their hearts to their lusts and creatures, and being enlightened to behold the glorious and great salvation, Heb. 2.3. which Christ hath wrought, do with admiration of this Jesus and his salvation, receive him, embrace him, upon his own terms, that they may obtain complete redemption and salvation by him: the more throughly sensible they are of this great salvation they have by him, and aim at in him, the more will they admire him.

To conclude, Art thou afraid thy faith is not sound, because thou didst aim at thy salvation? I will be bold to tell thee, thy faith is unsound, and thou didst never close with Christ truly, if thou didst not close with him for thy salvation: Thou poor abused Christian, didst not receive Jesus? Did not the Father call thee to Jesus? If you never received Jesus, you never received Christ as lyet: I pray what is Jesus? What doth this signifie? Is it not a Saviour? Good Lord, that ever Christians should be so abused, blinded, by a Devil, that they should not see, that it is impossible for them to receive a Christ, but they must receive Jesus Christ, they must receive a Saviour, and yet make their faith worth nothing, because they aimed at their own salvation: Will you be for ever fooled thus? Come, come, friend, leave your cavilling, your simple, silly, foolish quarrellings, I tell thee, Christ is a glorious Saviour, and will have abundance of glory in thy salvation: And where is Christ like to have it most, but in those, who being most sensible of their horrid, vile, undone and miserable condition through the guilt of their sin, and slavery of their hearts to their lusts and creatures, and being enlightened to behold the glorious and great salvation,