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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.
But the eying of the glory of God Above our own salvation, was that which neither Christ nor his Apostles did ever require of any Gospel-Convert; as requisite to their saving Conversion or Faith.
Ergo, The eying of Gods glory Above our own salvation, is not to be required of Gospel-Converts now, in order to saving Conversion or Faith.
If it be not to be required, then it is needless, then no such danger for a man to loose his Soul for want of it, as he tells us.
The Major is plain: He that will require more to a saving work of Faith and Conversion than Christ did and his Apostles, doth implicitly charge them with want of skill in conversion of Souls, and had best become a Teacher of them. This is little less than blasphemy, you say, and I may leave out little less.
The Major is plain: He that will require more to a faving work of Faith and Conversion than Christ did and his Apostles, doth implicitely charge them with want of skill in conversion of Souls, and had best become a Teacher of them. This is little less than blasphemy, you say, and I may leave out little less.