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The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…
The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs spirit in reconciling of a sinner to God / by Tho. Shepard ...The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs spirit in reconciling of a sinner to God / by Tho. Shepard ...
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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.
1I conclude therefore with that of Jeremiah, Break up your fallow grounds, seek to the Lord to break them for you, and sow not among thorns, take heed of such brokenness ⟨p. 105⟩which removes not the thorns of sinful secret stubbornness, lest the wrath of the Lord break out against you, and burn that none can quench it. Do not cut off John Baptists head, you that can be content to hear him gladly, and do many things, but he must not touch your Herodias, and make a divorce there, but suffer him to come in the spirit and power of Elijah, nay of Christ Jesus, to beat down your mountains, fill up your valleys, make your crooked rough ways smooth, that you may see the glory of the Lord Jesus, without which he shall be ever hid from you. Cry you faithful servants of the Lord, that All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man, of sin, of world, is a withering flower; that the Lord Jesus may be revealed ever fresh, and sweet, and precious, in the eyes of the Saints.
1I conclude therefore with that of Ieremy, Break up your fallow grounds, seek to the Lord to break them for you, and sow not among thornes, take heed of such brokennesse ⟨p. 105⟩which removes not the thornes of sinfull secret stubbornnesse, lest the wrath of the Lord break out against you, and burne that none can quench it. Doe not cut off Iohn Baptists head, you that can be content to heare him gladly, and doe many things, but he must not touch your Herodias, and make a divorce there, but suffer him to come in the spirit and power of Eliah, nay of Christ Iesus, to beat downe your mountaines, fill up your vallies, make your crooked rough waies smooth, that you may see the glory of the Lord Jesus, without which he shall be ever hid from you. Cry you faithfull servants of the Lord, that All flesh is grasse, and all the glory of man, of sin, of world, is a withering flower; that the Lord Jesus may be revealed ever fresh, and sweet, and precious, in the eyes of the Saints.