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

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.

The Minor: This lies upon Mr. Rogers to prove: Name the Texts, where ever Christ preached thus, or any of his Apostles; he may name Texts where God declares, that the end of all his good things bestowed on Vessels of Mercy, is the glory of his Grace: we yield the Texts as fast as he can name them, and we will give him a Reason also, He that is the first Efficient, must be the last End. It is to set up another God, to set up another ultimate end. We will be as free as he can be for Texts and Reasons to prove this: but this is not the question, Let him name the Texts, where Christ or the Apostles teach Converts, that in their conversion, or believing in him, they must look to this, that they set this glory of his Grace Above their own salvation: we read of Christ complaining, that the Jews would not come to him that they might have life, John 5.40. but never read, that he required of them, or blamed them, that they did not aim at, and set up the glory of Gods Grace Above their life: in that Text life comprehends salvation, and all benefits of communion: Those who are thirsty, calls them to him, and promises them living waters; many such Texts, but not one word of