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The first principles of the oracles of God collected
The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shepherd ...The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shephard ...
London: printed for John Rothwel, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Q. Why should Adams sin be imputed to all his posterity?
A. Because we were in him as the members in the head, as children in his loins, as debtors in their surety, as branches in their roots, it being just, that as if he standing, all had stood, by imputation of his righteousness, so he falling, all should fall, by the imputation of his sin.
A. Because we were in him as the members in the head, as children in his loynes, as debtors in their surety, as branches in their roots, it being just, that as if he standing, all had stood, by imputation of his righteousnesse, so he falling, all should fall, by the imputation of his sin.
Q. Thus have you seen mans apostasy from God, What is his recovery?
Q. Thus have you seen mans apostacy from God, What is his recovery?
A. It is the return of man to the favour of God again, merely out of favour, and the exceeding riches of his free grace, Eph. 2. 12, 13. Rom. 5. 8