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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, That there is a Heaven, which the Atheistical thoughts of my heart sometimes would question.
Secondly, That I have a title to it.
Ministers may teach Christians what objects they should meditate upon, but the thoughts of Christians will run there where they are most pinched. Other Christians if they be not held down with the former, yet they may be so oppressed with sad thoughts arising from debts, debasements, unequal yoke-fellow, long sickness and pains, with poverty attending, it may be several Children about them, and a grumbling Husband, because the Wife doth not work to maintain them; some from cold and hunger; that these are like the Israelites, when Moses told them comfortable things from God, Exod. 6. from the 6. to the 9. ver. but in ver. 9. They hearkened not to him through anguish of spirit.
Ministers may teach Christians what objects they should meditate upon, but the thoughts of Christians will run there where they are most pinched. Other Christians if they be not held down with the former, yet they may be so oppressed with sad thoughts arising from debts, debasements, unequal yoak-fellow, long sickness and pains, with poverty attending, it may be several Children about them, and a grumbling Husband, because the Wife doth not work to maintain them; some from cold and hunger; that these are like the Israelites, when Moses told them comfortable things from God, Exod. 6. from the 6. to the 9. ver. but in ver. 9. They hearkened not to him through anguish of spirit.