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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.
The evidence of this truth in the general, put blessed and learned Pemble upon another way;1 for when he perceived (as himself confesseth) that it is the general doctrine of all Orthodox Divines, viz. that actual faith is never wrought in the soul, till beside the supernatural illumination of the mind, the will be also first freed in part from its natural perverseness, (God making all men of unwilling, willing) hereupon he concludes that this is done by the spirit of Sanctification, and one supernatural quality of holiness ⟨p. 106⟩universally infused in all the powers of the soul at once; so that the Spirit instantly first sanctifies us, & puts life in us; then it acts in sorrow for, and detestation of sin, and so we come actually to believe. And because he fore-saw the blow, viz. that in this way, Christians are sanctified before they be justified; he answers, Yes, we are justified declaratively after this.
The evidence of this truth in the generall, put blessed and learned Pemble upon another way;1 for when he perceived (as himselfe confesseth) that it is the generall doctrine of all Orthodox Divines, viz. that actuall faith is never wrought in the soule, till beside the supernaturall illumination of the mind, the will be also first freed in part from its naturall perversenesse, (God making all men of unwilling, willing) hereupon he concludes that this is done by the spirit of Sanctification, and one supernaturall quality of holines ⟨p. 106⟩universally infused in all the powers of the soul at once; so that the Spirit instantly first sanctifies us, & puts life in us; then it acts in sorrow for, and detestation of sin, and so we come actually to beleeve. And because he fore-saw the blow, viz. that in this way, Christians are sanctified before they be justified; he answers, Yes, we are justified declaratively after this.
- 1Vind. grat. p. 7, 11, 13