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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.
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?
Object. The reason is not the same; those were our duties in the state of innocency, before the fall.
Answ. The Argument signifies nothing. For it is not the state I am in, be it innocency or nocency, that makes any thing my duty, but the Command of the supreme Law-giver. Take away the Command, there is no Obligation. But the Command being given to fallen man, to believe in Christ his Redeemer, it is as much his duty to believe in him in a state of nocency, as to love God in a state of innocency.
2. Reason doth as well dictate, that fallen, undone man, a slave, a captive under sin, Satan and wrath, should fly to God, embrace a Redeemer revealed and offered, as it doth dictate, he should love his Creator in a state of innocency.