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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. This is your glory & beauty, this is glorification begun; what greater glory then to be like unto God? to be like unto God is to be next to God: and therefore this is called glory, 2 Cor. 3.18. we are changed into the same image from glory to glory. Every degree of grace is glory, and the perfection of glory in heaven consists chiefly in the perfection of grace; what is the work of some men at this day but to cast reproach upon sanctification our glory?
2. This is your glory & beauty, this is glorification begun; what greater glory then to be like unto God? to be like unto God is to be next to God: and therefore this is called glory, 2 Cor. 3.18. we are changed into the same image from glory to glory. Every degree of grace is glory, and the perfection of glory in heaven consists chiefly in the perfection of grace; what is the worke of some men at this day but to cast reproach upon sanctification our glory?
3. This will give you abundance of sweet peace, and therefore, Heb. 12.11. it is called the quiet fruit of righteousness; for from whence comes the sore troubles and continual doubts of Gods favour in many mens consciences? Is it not some decay or guile here? Psal. 32.1, 2. Is it not some boldness to sin; that they walk not in ⟨p. 303⟩fear, and therefore not in the consolation of the Holy Ghost? 1Is it not their secret dalliance with some known sin, continued in with secret impenitency? Is it not because they labour with some strong unmortified corruption, pride, or passions, that they are in daily pangs and throws of conscience for?