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A41331	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 ...	Firmin, Giles, 1614-1697.	1670 (1670)	Wing F963; ESTC R34439	271,866	392

able to subdue all the enmity of his heart against God all his lusts and corruptions he must mortifie and walk before God in a holy frame continually he that undertakes this undertakes a hard task if he understand it he will soon find either of them impossible one as easie as the other chuse which you think is the easiest Thus then the Spirit takes him off First By convincing him of the nature of sin of guilt what it is to have a holy and just Law broken What are all thy duties thou performest What is thy righteousness though it were pure which it is not to satisfie the holy Law of a Just God which thou hast broken so many thousand times and hast a heart opposite and enemy to it If thy nature were now holy and all thy life from this time holy this is but thy duty and so it was alwayes Can thy doing that which is now thy duty to answer this day make satisfaction for not doing thy duty all thy life before If a man be taken clipping the Kings Coin or hath committed some one capital Crime if he comes before the Judge and pleads he lived all his life time before clear from such Crime and will do from henceforth it was but once that he did so will this answer the Law Will the Judge acquit him He did and doth but his duty if he lived before and will do after as he pleads he should have done so when he committed that Crime the Law calls him a Son of death and dye he must for that one Crime Shall then a man having a nature that hates the righteous Law of God and tramples upon it daily think with a few pittiful duties repentings c. to answer a thousand and ten thousand breaches of the holy Law of his Soveraign The wages of sin is death and dye thou must unless a ransome can be found Secondly By convincing him of the sin of his nature he opens to him that fountain of iniquity that sinning sin and if this be once opened by the Spirit it will take down the pride of any self-Justiciary let him that fecleth this talk of his righteousness duties works if he can if he doth I know what his language must be When I read men denying original sin I do not wonder at all their proud Opinions and self-advancing Doctrines Whence did these men descend Not from our father Adam surely there is talk now of another World in the Moon the inhabitants there came not from the stock we did certainly these men dropped out of that world and therefore deny this sin of our nature they find it not in their nature This I am sure of say these men what they please I know nothing that doth so abuse a man beats him out of himself and all conceits of his own righteousness that makes a man see himself loathsome undone damned for ever in himself as the discoveries and sense of this sin of sins Take a man who hath committed the vileir actual sins could I suppose that man to be guilty only of them and without this original sin I should not judge that man so sinful as he that is defiled with this original sin though by the restraining Providence of God he be kept from breaking out into actual gross evils I do more adore the riches of Gods grace in pardoning this sin then in pardoning any actual sin except Adam's first sin yet his grace deserves to be adored for pardoning actual sins Though Christ did beat Paul down to the earth with that miraculous light and voice which he heard yet I conceive he had not beat him out of his Pharisaical righteousness had not another light discovered this woful sin of his nature which makes the unspotted blameless Pharisee cry out and confess In me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing Rom. 7.18 Before there was no evil now there is no good Thus I agree as I said before with Mr. Shepherd if a man like Paul whom he mentions have trusted to his own goodness duties honest conversation righteousness and here have found his rest if ever God shew mercy to such a one then in the first stroke of Conviction he rips up this Monster he shall need no more I warrant him to make him change his thoughts and make him see the need of another righteousness and a strong Redeemer Thirdly God may let the same corruptions of which he was convinced at first and which caused those fears and sorrows to be working again putting forth themselves in strong motions the feeling of which doth almost sink his heart he thinks to Hell now he must go for he finds his lusts are too strong for him though he hath smarted for them and thought he should never have any thing more to do with them yet now he finds his heart is naught vile wicked as ever and begins to despair it may be in his struggling with his lusts he flabs is foiled if not carried away as before and this kills him Fourthly God may let more corruptions loose that is to be inwardly working that the man can see nothing but corruption and cryes out he was never so bad Sin taking occasion by the Law wrought in me all manner of coneupiscence Rom. 7.8 Luther found temptations to all sins but Covetousness Paul felt all manner of Concupiscence a common thing for Christians under the work to cry out they were never worse never so bad Fifthly God shews no acceptance of his duties le ts him find no peace or quietness by them but Conscience is still roaring at him drawing up bills of indictment against him still charging him with fresh sins which it may be he had forgotten or doth still commit so that the Soul finds no rest Sixthly The Lord may and doth many times withdraw his assistance unto duties that the man cannot pray nor mourn as before is not so lively but grows more dead and blockish hard hearted as he conceives and feels himself God is free in his assistance and influences he is not bound to give them while the man could pray and relent in prayer his heart tender and mourning he had some hopes but now his eyes are dry his heart hard cannot relent now all is naught this cuts off all his hopes and now must perish Seventhly The Spirit sets home this Doctrine with authority so that there is no opposing Without Christ there is no salvation He that believeth not is condemned already John 3.18 He that hath the Son hath life he that hath not the Son hath not life 1 John 5.12 Thou thinkest thou hast this and that which will speak well for thee Hast thou Christ If a Christless Soul have you what you will else the wrath of God abideth on thee John 3. ult Such words are set home with that life that there is no gainsaying the Soul must look out for a Saviour else all will be naught More possibly may be added but I think these

p. 177. l. 20. dele wretched p. 178 marg r. suavitas p 198. l. 16 17 c. concurse p. 199. l. 3 r. me p. 226. l. ult r. edification p. 228. l. 14. r. latitudinarians p. 235. l. 4. r. roll p. 240. l. 27. r. save p. 251. l. 10. r. is p. 252. l. 11. r. she 256. l. 11. r. roll and so often p. 282. p. 274. l. 31. r. to p. 289. l. 35. r. election THE INTRODUCTION WHen God gave commandment to Israel to appoint three Cities of Refuge Deut. 19 2. He gave another Commandment to them v. 3. To prepare the way to those Cities Upon which Commandment the Magistrates of Israel every year on the fifteenth day of the month Adar or February sent out Messengers to prepare the wayes to the Cities of Refuge to make them fit and broad remove out of them all stumbling blocks and offences they suffered not any Hill or Dale to be in the way nor water-streams but they made a bridge over it that nothing might hinder him that fled thither At the partition of wayes they set up in writing Refuge Refuge 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that the man-slayer might know and turn thitherward If any man met the man-slayer he was not to hinder him but two or three of their wise men were to be upon the way that if they did meet with the Avenger of blood they might by lenitive words endeavour the appeasing of his wrath and not fall upon the man-slayer till the case were judicially heard Some Divines I see make Christ to be typified by this City of Refuge if so methinks that which is spoken of John Isai 40.3 quoted by all the Evangelists crying in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord c. ver 4. Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low c. may well alude to this their preparing the way to the City of Refuge That the Apostle Heb. 6.18 in those words who have fled for Refuge doth at least allude to this flying to the City of Refuge I think may well be admitted So * In tentum Consugimus per Baptismum ad Christum Lyra. Grotius intimates Confugimus tanquam ad Asylum ut illi de quibus Numb 35.2 and Josh 21.27 that is We fly as unto a Sanctuary as those in Numb 35.2 and Josh 21.27 who fled to the Cities of Refuge Jacobus Cappellus thus glosseth Confugimus A quo a Deo Ad quem ad Deum c. We fly from whom from God To whom To God to wit from an angry God to a pacified God through the intercession of his Son for then will a Refuge far most safe lye open to us when we fly to that promise of the Covenant of Grace which he bath declared in his Word and confirmed by his Oath This is very savoury Be this Refuge Christ or God pacified in his Son or the Covenant of Grace sure I am that the way unto this Refuge hath as much need to be kept clear from stumbling blocks offences or whatever might hinder the Soul under the sense of its sin and misery full of fears in danger of death eternal through an angry God or the Curse of the Law pursuing it now flying for Refuge as there was need of that way to be prepared to the City of Refuge to which the man-slayer was flying But whether some eminent Divines whose names are very precious in the Church have not layed some blocks in the way which have caused much trouble of spirit to loaden and afflicted Souls who have been flying to Christ for Refuge in the day of their fears and sorrows Ask and experience will tell you Let us see a little Here is a sinner whom God hath awakened hath set his fins in order before him He that before could say God is a merciful God say these Preachers what they will now he feels and finds God to be an angry God and one that is as good as his word one that will not endure iniquity he will not clear the guilty and this poor Creature seeth nothing but guilt and iniquity in himself no Creature under heaven so miserable as himself to abide here he cannot the Law speaks nothing but death and dye he must if there be no other way to save him then what he can find in himself Hearing of Christ and a Covenant of Grace revealed in the Gospel for such poor sinners to run to and hearing Christ calling of such to him Matth. 11.28 the sinner answers gladly with them Jer. 3.22 Behold we come to thee and now is hasting for Refuge But one meets him in the way and speaks to him How now sleepy sinner what are you now awake what are those lusts of thine wherewith thy soul was so delighted become evil things in earnest to thee Is thy sweet morsel which thou didst hide so under thy tongue Job 20 12. become bitter Is hell real do you believe wrath indeed is coming do you think God is just will be just whatever you thought of him before All this is very true saith the sinner I feel it all to my sorrow Well what would you have a Christ God reconciled his Love Yea saith the soul this it is you have named it this will quiet my soul indeed and nothing else But stay saith he Are you come to this Mr. Shepherd Sound Believer p. 154. in that Impression 1645. to be quiet with the will of God in case you think you shall never partake of his Love this you must come to if you be rightly humbled and prepared for Christ unto whom you are now flying Grace you would have and God to work Grace you desire yea carnestly saith the Soul I would fain have God manifest grace towards me But stay saith he What if God will not work Grace Mr. Shep. p. 140. p. 143. nor never manifest Grace to you will you not by sinking discouragements and secret quarralling resist God It may be you will be above Christ not under him and willing to be disposed of by him O I pray Sir what do you mean by this willing to be disposed of by him This Mr. Shepheard hath not so plainly expressed but observe what went before with the thread of his discourse and it is plain English if he dispose thee to hell and damnation Thus his Father in Law Mr. Tho. Mr. Hooker's Souls Humil. p. 112. Hooker that eminent man of God in his Souls Humiliation speaks it out in plain terms 'T is harsh and tedious and long it is ere the soul be thus framed yet the heart truly abased is content to bear the estate of damnation By the way observe if it be long first before this be attained then this soul is a long time under preparation and not yet come to Christ according to his discourse that he is upon Thus in several other places he hath these expressions Ibid. p. 114 116 140. The humbled