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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. He absolves them from all guilt and condemnation of sin; so that in this sense, he sees no iniquity in Jacob; chastisements they may now have after justification, but no punishments; crosses, not curses; such as destroy their sins, no punishments to destroy their souls: hence those phrases in Scripture, scattering sins as a mist, blotting them out, remembering them no more, setting them as far as East is from the West: for Christ being made sin for his people, and this being imputed, he abolishing all sin, by ox offering, Heb. 10. hence all are forgiven; and hence it is that there can be no suit in Law against a sinner, the Law being satisfied, and the sinner absolved; nay hence sin is condemned, and the sinner spared, Rom. 8.3. as Christ dyed for us, so he was acquitted for us, and we in him; we in him in redemption, we ⟨p. 263⟩by him in actual faith and application.
1. He absolves them from all guilt and condemnation of sin; so that in this sense, he sees no iniquity in Iacob; chastisements they may now have after justification, but no punishments; crosses, not curses; such as destroy their sins, no punishments to destroy their soules: hence those phrases in Scripture, scattering sins as a mist, blotting them out, remembring them no more, setting them as farre as East is from the West: for Christ being made sin for his people, and this being imputed, he abolishing all sin, by oxe offering, Heb. 10. hence all are forgiven; and hence it is that there can be no suit in Law against a sinner, the Law being satisfied, and the sinner absolved; nay hence sin is condemned, and the sinner spared, Rom. 8.3. as Christ dyed for us, so he was acquitted for us, and wee in him; we in him in redemption, we ⟨p. 263⟩by him in actuall faith and application.