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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.
4. If the whole soul by unbelief departs from God, then the whole soul must return and come again unto God.
4. If the whole soule by unbeliefe departs from God, then the whole soule must return and come again unto God.
5. If the want of this be the great cause why men are rejected of God, then the whole soul must return to him: but this is the cause why all men under the means are rejected of God.1 Israel would none of me, i. e. would not be content alone with me, would not take quiet contentment in me, (as the Hebrew word signifies) the Lord was not good enough for them; but their hearts went out from him to other things, & therefore the Lord gave them up to their own hearts lust, and they walked in their own counsels. The woman that forsakes the guide of her youth, and sets her heart as much upon other men as her husband, is an Adulteress, for which only she shall have a bill of divorce.
5. If the want of this be the great cause why men are rejected of God, then the whole soule must returne to him: but this is the cause why all men under the meanes are rejected of God.1 Israel would none of me, i. e. would not be content alone with me, would not take quiet contentment in me, (as the Hebrew word signifies) the Lord was not good enough for them; but their hearts went out from him to other things, & therefore the Lord gave them up to their own hearts lust, and they walked in their owne counsels. The woman that forsakes the guide of her youth, and sets her heart as much upon other men as her husband, is an Adulteresse, for which onely shee shall have a bill of divorce.