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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.
1. I shall show you what this call is, or the nature of it. 2. The necessity of it. 3. How it is a ground of coming, and what kind of ground for Faith.
1. I shall shew you what this call is, or the nature of it. 2. The necessity of it. 3. How it is a ground of coming, and what kind of ground for Faith.
1. The nature of this Call I shall open for your more distinct understanding in several Propositions, or Theses.
1. The nature of this Call I shall open for your more distinct understanding in severall Propositions, or Theses.
Our Vocation or Calling is ever by some word or voice, either outward, or inward, or both; either ordinary or extraordinary; by the ministry of men, or by immediate visions and inspirations of God. I speak not now of extraordinary call, by dreams and visions, and immediate inspirations, as in Abraham, and others, before the Scriptures were penned and published; nor of extraordinary call, by the immediate voice of Christ: as in Paul and some other of the Apostles: for these are ceased now, Heb. 1.1. unless it be among people that want ordinary means, and elect infants, &c. whose call must be more then by ordinary means, because they want such means; we speak now of ordinary call by the ministry of men.
Our Vocation or Calling is ever by some word or voyce, either outward, or inward, or both; either ordinary or extraordinary; by the ministery of men, or by immediate visions and inspirations of God. I speak not now of extraordinary call, by dreames and visions, and immediate inspirations, as in Abraham, and others, before the Scriptures were penned and published; nor of extraordinary call, by the immediate voyce of Christ: as in Paul and some other of the Apostles: for these are ceased now,