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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 aggravates all other sins; If I had not spake to them, (saith Christ) they had had no sin; 1i. e. comparatively; but now they have no cloak for their sin: can the sin of devils be so great as thine, that never had a Saviour sent unto them? yet thou hast one sent and come out of heaven to thee, calling to thee from heaven, and yet thou despisest him.
2. This aggravates all other sins; If I had not spake to them, (saith Christ) they had had no sin; 1i. e. comparatively; but now they have no cloak for their sin: can the sin of devills be so great as thine, that n•ver had a Saviour sent unto them? yet thou hast one sent and come out of heaven to thee, calling to thee from heaven, and yet thou despisest him.
- 1Joh. 1•.22.
3. This provokes the Lord to most unappeasable & unquenchable wrath, Heb. 3.11. I sware in my wrath they should not enter into my rest; after sins against the Law, the Lord did not swear that man should dye, (for that notes an unchangeable purpose) but let Christ be despised, the Lord now swears in ⟨p. 247⟩his wrath against such a one: he that draws back, my soul shall take no pleasure in him, Heb. 10.38. after sin against the law, the Lord took pleasure in glorifying his grace upon man fallen, but if you draw back from the grace of Christ in the Gospel, the Lord will take no pleasure in you.