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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.
God hath tied himself graciously to such as do seek Him, 1not themselves: He assists and seconds them, who seek his glory above their own salvation:
God hath tyed himself graciously to such as do seek Him, 1not themselves: He assists and seconds them, who seek his glory above their own salvation:
- 1p. 117.
There is a mixed-self; 1and this mixed self is so dangerous a mischief, as to deprive the soul of all her labour and hopes. Now what is that mixed-self? 2Several are mentioned: The fifth, is Self-love: When the soul so looks at the Promise, ⟨image 24⟩as an object of immediate good to her self, and for her own ends and welfare, not subordinating her own salvation to the glory of God.
There is a mixt-self; 1and this mixt self is so dangerous a mischief, as to deprive the soul of all her labour and hopes. Now what is that mixt-self? 2Several are mentioned: The fifth, is Self-love: When the soul so looks at the Promise, ⟨image 24⟩as an object of immediate good to her self, and for her own ends and welfare, not subordaining her own salvation to the glory of God.