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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 you ask Paul (as Evangelical a Christian as ever lived) what now we are to do when we are in Christ? he answers punctually, 2 Cor. 5.14, 15. The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that Christ dying for those that were dead, they that live should not live unto themselves, but unto him that dyed for them and rose again.
If you aske Paul (as Evangelicall a Christian as ever lived) what now we are to do when we are in Christ? hee answers punctually, 2 Cor. 5.14, 15. The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that Christ dying for those that were dead, they that live should not live unto themselves, but unto him that dyed for them and rose againe.
If we ask Peter the question, to what end the Lord hath called us out of darkness into his marvellous light? he expressly tells you, it is to show forth the virtues of him that hath so called, 1 Pet. 2.9.
If we aske Peter the question, to what end the Lord hath called us out of darknesse into his marvelous light? he expresly tells you, it is to shew forth the vertues of him that hath so called, 1 Pet. 2.9.
If we be doubtful whether this be the Lords mind, the Lord himself resolves it by Zechariah, Luk. 1.74. and tells us, that tis his oath, That we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, we should serve him without fear in holiness (in all the rules of the first Table) and righteousness (in all duties of the second Table) all the days of our life, & that all this should not be out of a spirit of