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Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings / by Thomas Shepherd ...Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings / by Thomas Shephard ...
London: printed by W.H. for John Rothwell, 1650
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.
You find the strength of grace to be got in you rather by argumentation,1 then inward communication and influence arising from the union to Christ. And this troubles you.
You finde the strength of grace to be got in you rather by argumentation,1 then inward communication and influence arising from the union to Christ. And this troubles you.
- 1Quest. 1.
To which I answer these three things.1
- 1Answ.
1. That as the old sinful nature is communicated from Adam the first to us, without any argumentation▪ so the new nature, which is the seed, foundation, and plot of all grace, is diffused into us by the second Adam when we are united to him, without argumentation. It is only by divine operation. The Lord leave not me, nor any friend I have, to a naked Arminian illumination and persuasion.
1. That as the old sinnefull nature is communicated from Adam the first to us, without any argumentation▪ so the new nature, which is the seed, foundation, and plot of all grace, is diffused into us by the second Adam when we are united to him, without argumentation. It is onely by divine operation. The Lord leave not me, nor any friend I have, to a naked Arminian illumination and perswasion.