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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. By this you glorify him perfectly in an instant, for you continue to do all that the Law requires that instant you believe. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. whether a Christian by faith doth make void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, but we establish the Law. How is that? Paraeus shows three ways: One is this, because that perfect righteousness which the Law requires of us, we perform it in Christ, by faith. So that in one instant thou continuest to do all that the Law requires, and hence ariseth the impossibility of a true Believers apostasy, as from one principal cause: They that deny satisfaction by Christs doing of the Law, because by our own works and doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny satisfaction by Christs sufferings, because by our own sufferings we cannot be justified; our obedience to the Law in way of suffering, is as truly the works of the Law, as our obedience in way of doing.
1. By this you glorifie him perfectly in an instant, for you continue to doe all that the Law requires that instant you beleeve. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. whether a Christian by faith doth make void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, but we establish the Law. How is that? Paraeus shews three wayes: One is this, because that perfect righteousnesse which the Law requires of us, we performe it in Christ, by faith. So that in one instant thou continuest to doe all that the Law requires, and hence ariseth the impossibility of a true Beleevers apostacie, as from one principall cause: They that deny satisfaction by Christs doing of the Law, because by our own works and doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny satisfaction by Christs sufferings, because by our owne sufferings we cannot be justified; our obedience to the Law in way of suffering, is as truly the works of the Law, as our obedience in way of doing.
2. By this you glorify Gods justice; what ever Justice requires to be done or suffered, you give it unto God, by faith in Christ.