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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.
If Sons, then the Lord surely will take care for you as for sons; a godly father hath a double care of his children. First, of their temporal; Secondly, and chiefly of their eternal estate; we are ready to question in times of want, what we shall eat, drink, how we shall live; oh consider, art thou a ⟨p. 284⟩Son of God, and will not he that feeds the Ravens, and clothes the Lilies, 1provide for thee? yes verily, he will take care for thy temporal good. It is true you may be brought into outward straits, wants, miseries, yet then the Lord is thereby plotting for thy eternal good, for hence come all Gods corrections, Deut. 8.5. Heb. 12.8. the Lord took all they had from them by their enemies in war, and carried them away captive into a strange land, yet ler. 24.5. this was for their good; we think the Lord many times takes no care for us, & so make him of a worse nature then the savage beasts, or bloody men toward their young, but this is certain, he never denies any thing to us in outward things, but it is to further our eternal bliss with him, to do us good in our latter end: what say godly parents? it is no matter what becomes of my children, when I am dead, if the Lord would but give them himself to be their portion; if at last they may see the Lord in glory: do not wonder then if the Lord keeps you short sometimes.
If Sons, then the Lord surely will take care for you as for sons; a godly father hath a double care of his children. First, of their temporall; Secondly, and chiefly of their eternall estate; we are ready to question in times of want, what we shall eat, drink, how we shall live; oh consider, art thou a ⟨p. 284⟩Son of God, and will not he that feeds the Ravens, and clothes the Lillies, 1provide for thee? yes verily, he wil take care for thy temporall good. It is true you may be brought into outward straits, wants, miseries, yet then the Lord is thereby plotting for thy eternall good, for hence come all Gods corrections,