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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.
Object. The thing I am as willing to endeavour to do as you would have me: But what if I do conclude Christ is mine, and pardon is mine, and I should be mistaken, how then? How woeful were my condition?
Object. The thing I am as willing to endeavour to do as you would have me: But what if I do conclude Christ is mine, and pardon is mine, and I should be mistaken, how then? How woful were my condition?
Answ. First, All the Christians in the world, that ever were or shall be, may make this Objection; so no Christian should ever have drawn up this Conclusion, that Christ is mine, &c.
Secondly, How did our Christians in our Fathers times, when they taught them, that Faith was the particular persuasion and assurance that Christ is mine, that my sins are forgiven? This Objection was as full against them as me: and as they apprehended Faith to be, no body should have believed, if this Objection be sufficient to keep them off.
Secondly, How did our Christians in our Fathers times, when they taught them, that Faith was the particular perswasion and assurance that Christ is mine, that my sins are forgiven? This Objection was as full against them as me: and as they apprehended Faith to be, no body should have believed, if this Objection be sufficient to keep them off.