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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.
First, The sound Christian receiveth the Person of Christ: Union is with the Person of Christ; though this must be first, yet I would not put that block in the way ⟨p. 252⟩of poor Christians: Did you embrace the Person of Christ first? Had you union with him first before you did meddle with his goods? Alas, many poor Christians are not so distinct, they cannot tell what they did first nor second; but it was Jesus Christ with all his goods which they felt the want of; they were lost, undone, had need of a Saviour, and willing also to receive him, Christ and Lord; this they can tell; but yet if you ask them, What is Christ to you? If you put the question, as they did to the Spouse, Cant. 5. v. 9. What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? the Believer will answer, though he cannot tell what the Spouse meant in that description of Christ by particular parts to set out the beauty of his Person, yet she can say with the close of the description, ver. 16. He is altogether lovely.
First, The sound Christian receiveth the Person of Christ: Ʋnion is with the Person of Christ; though this must be first, yet I would not put that block in the way ⟨p. 252⟩of poor Christians: Did you embrace the Person of Christ first? Had you union with him first before you did meddle with his goods? Alas, many poor Christians are not so distinct, they cannot tell what they did first nor second; but it was Jesus Christ with all his goods which they felt the want of; they were lost, undone, had need of a Saviour, and willing also to receive him, Christ and Lord; this they can tell; but yet if you ask them, What is Christ to you? If you put the question, as they did to the Spouse, Cant. 5. v. 9. What is thy Beloved more than another Beloved? the Believer will answer, though he cannot tell what the Spouse meant in that description of Christ by particular parts to set out the beauty of his Person, yet she can say with the close of the description, ver. 16. He is altogether lovely.