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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.
Again, that Argument wherewith Christ moveth his Disciples (for to them he speaks, Matth. 16.24. after he had given that sharp rebuke to Peter) to self-denial, and taking up the cross, is in a manner the same; for it is the loss of their Souls, ver. 25, 26.
Secondly, The Apostles moved with the same Argument, ⟨p. 300⟩Heb. 12.28, 29. To whom doth the Apostle speak? To those that receive a Kingdom. What duty doth he call them to? Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. But with what Argument will the Apostle move these Christians to this duty (which is a large duty comprehending all)? For, our God is a consuming fire. Our God from whom we receive this Kingdom he is thus, therefore look to your God as a consuming fire, is an Argument for those who receive a Kingdom to make use of, to hold their hearts in a reverent frame of obedience towards God all their days.
Secondly, The Apostles moved with the same Argument, ⟨p. 300⟩Heb. 12.28, 29. To whom doth the Apostle speak? To those that receive a Kingdom. What duty doth he call them to? Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. But with what Argument will the Apostle move these Christians to this duty (which is a large duty comprehending all)? For, our God is a consuming fire. Our God from whom we receive this Kingdom he is thus, therefore look to your God as a consuming fire, is an Argument for those who receive a Kingdom to make use of, to hold their hearts in a reverent frame of obedience towards God all their dayes.