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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.
4. That the Lord should be thus pacified with enemies; a man may be easily pacified with one that offends him a little, but with an enemy that strikes at his life (as by every sin you do) this is wonderful, yet this is the case here, Rom. 5.7, 8.
4. That the Lord should be thus pacified with enemies; a man may be easily pacified with one that offends him a little, but with an enemy that strikes at his life (as by every sinne you doe) this is wonderfull, yet this is the case here, Rom. 5.7, 8.
5. That the Lord should be pacified, even with enemies, by such a wonderful way as the blood of Jesus Christ, Rom. 5.7, 8. this is such love, as one would think the infinite wisdom of a blessed God could have devised no greater; by this (v. 6.) he commanded and set out his love, which though now it grow a stale and common thing in our days, yet this is that which is enough to burst the heart with astonishment and ⟨p. 278⟩amazement, to think that the party offended, (who therefore had no cause to seek peace with us again) should find out such a way of peace as this is; woe to the world that despise this peace.
5. That the Lord should be pacified, even with enemies, by such a wonderfull way as the blood of Jesus Christ, Rom. 5.7, 8. this is such love, as one would think the infinite wisdome of a blessed God could have devised no greater; by this (v. 6.) he commanded and set out his love, which though now it grow a stale and common thing in our dayes, yet this is that which is enough to burst the heart with astonishment and