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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. By this you glorify Gods justice; what ever Justice requires to be done or suffered, you give it unto God, by faith in Christ.
2. By this you glorifie Gods justice; what ever Justice requires to be done or suffered, you give it unto God, by faith in Christ.
3. By this you glorify grace and mercy, Ephes. 1.7. for by this means mercy may over-abound toward you, and you may triumph in it as sure and certain to you. What a blessed mystery is this! Doth it not grieve you that you cannot glorify God in your times and places? Behold the way, if thou canst not do it by obedience, thou mayest by faith: and thereby make restitution of all Gods glory lost and stolen from him by thy disobedience to him.
3. By this you glorifie grace and mercy, Ephes. 1.7. for by this meanes mercy may over-abound toward you, and you may triumph in it as sure and certaine to you. What a blessed mysterie is this! Doth it not grieve you that you cannot glorifie God in your times and places? Behold the way, if thou canst not doe it by obedience, thou maist by faith: and thereby make restitution of all Gods glory lost and stolne from him by thy disobedience to him.
By this you have peace in your consciences; by this, Christs blood is sprinkled upon them, and that cools the burning torments of them, Rom. 5.1. The comers unto the Levitical sacrifices and washings, (types of this offering of Christ) could not thereby be perfected and be without the guilty conscience of sin, none of your duties can pacify conscience, but as they carry you hither to this righteousness, but the comers to this have no more terrors of conscience for sin, I mean they have no just cause to have any; this Rain-bow appearing over your heads, is a certain sign of fair weather, and that there shall be no more deluge of wrath to overwhelm thee.