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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.
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, ⟨p. 218⟩by lively voice, or printed Sermons at the time of hearing, or in the time of deep meditation, concerning things heard; the Spirit indeed inwardly accompanies the voice of the Gospel, but no mans call is by the immediate voice of the Spirit without the Gospel, or the immediate testimony of the Spirit breathed out of free grace, without the word. Eph. 1.12, 13. And therefore, that a Christian should be immediately called without the Scripture, and the Scripture only given to confirm Gods immediate promise, as a Prince gives his letter to confirm his promise made to a man before; (as Valdesso would have it,) is both a false and dangerous assertion.
2. This voyce in ordinary calling home of the elect to Christ, is not by the voyce of the Law, (for the proper end of that is to reveale sinne and death, and to cast down a sinner) but by the voyce of the Gospell bringing glad tidings; written by the Apostles, and preached to the world.1 He hath called you by our Gospell. These things are written that you might beleeve. By the foolishnesse of preaching, the Lord saves them that beleeve. I meane, preaching at the first or second rebound, ⟨p. 218⟩by lively voyce, or printed Sermons at the time of hearing, or in the time of deep meditation, concerning things heard; the Spirit indeed inwardly accompanies the voyce of the Gospell, but no mans call is by the immediate voyce of the Spirit without the Gospell, or the immediate testimony of the Spirit breathed out of free grace, without the word.