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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.
Let me prove my Position.
1 John 3.23. This is his Commandment, that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ: Is the word prepared put in? Doth it run thus, This is his Commandment, when we are prepared, to believe in his Son? The next words, and love one another, I hope this is not a duty depending upon our being prepared: That when we are prepared, then it is our duty to love one another, and not before: no more is our Faith in Christ our duty after we are prepared: they are both joined together in the Text. Commands bind the Creature immediately. Commands ⟨p. 4⟩express our duty unto God, without Conditions. Promises express the good Will of God to us, upon Conditions.
1 John 3.23. This is his Commandment, that we should believe on the Name of his Son Jesus Christ: Is the word prepared put in? Doth it run thus, This is his Commandment, when we are prepared, to believe in his Son? The next words, and love one another, I hope this is not a duty depending upon our being prepared: That when we are prepared, then it is our duty to love one another, and not before: no more is our Faith in Christ our duty after we are prepared: they are both joyned together in the Text. Commands bind the Creature immediately. Commands ⟨p. 4⟩express our duty unto God, without Conditions. Promises express the good Will of God to us, upon Conditions.
It is as much every mans duty to believe in Christ, when he hears him preached and offered, as it is, to love God and our neighbour. But will any man say, it is not our duty to love God and our neighbour, until we be prepared?