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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 bare Word I grant cannot persuade without the Spirit, yet the Spirit will not give ground to Faith without the Word, but as by it, so upon it, will build the souls of all the elect, who are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ being the chief corner-stone, Eph. 2.20. How can they believe without a Preacher? Rom. 10.14.
the bare Word I grant cannot perswade without the Spirit, yet the Spirit will not give ground to Faith without the Word, but as by it, so upon it, will build the souls of all the elect, who are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Iesus Christ being the chief corner-stone, Eph. 2.20. How can they beleeve without a Preacher? Rom. 10.14.
3. Then when wicked men and reprobates are commanded to believe, (as they are commanded, John 3.19. Luk. 14.17. John 6.38. Heb. 4.2.) they are commanded to believe a lye, viz. that their sins are pardoned, and they actually justified; for if this testimony be the ground of faith, then when they are commanded to believe, they are commanded to be persuaded of this testimony. But the sins of wicked men, especially Reprobates, are not nor never shall be forgiven, and therefore this cannot be the ground of Faith.