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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.
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, Heb. 1.1. unlesse it be among people that want ordinary meanes, and elect infants, &c. whose call must be more then by ordinary meanes, because they want such means; we speak now of ordinary call by the ministery of men.
2. This voice in ordinary calling home of the elect to Christ, is not by the voice of the Law, (for the proper end of that is to reveal sin and death, and to cast down a sinner) but by the voice of the Gospel bringing glad tidings; written by the Apostles, and preached to the world.1 He hath called you by our Gospel. These things are written that you might believe. By the foolishness of preaching, the Lord saves them that believe. I mean, preaching at the first or second rebound,