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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.
In suffering and enduring any evil for his §5sake. I confess it is not every degree of love that will carry a man hither; yet where there is great and singular love, for a good man one may be willing to dye; Rom. 5.7. assuredly if there be any love to Christ, it will in ⟨p. 342⟩time increase to this measure; it will think ten thousand lives too little to lay down for Christs sake, that laid down his precious life for him: What tell you me, saith Paul, of bonds and imprisonments? I am ready not only to be bound, but to dye for the sake of Christ at Jerusalem; my life is not dear to me, no more then a rush at my foot, that I may finish my course with joy: for thy sake we are killed all the day long. Rom. 8.36. I tell you the love of Christ will make you fall down upon your knees, and bless the Lord, that he will accept of such a poor sacrifice as thy body is, though it be burnt to ashes; and thou wilt bless him again and again, that whereas he might have left thee in thy sins to have trodden him and his glory and grace under foot, as he hath done thousands in the world; yet that he should call thee to share in this honour not only to do, but to suffer for his sake.
In suffering and enduring any evill for his §5sake. I confesse it is not every degree of love that will carry a man hither; yet where there is great and singular love, for a good man one may be willing to dye; Rom. 5.7. assuredly if there be any love to Christ, it will in ⟨p. 342⟩time increase to this measure; it will think ten thousand lives too little to lay down for Christs sake, that laid down his precious life for him: What tell you me, saith Paul, of bonds and imprisonments? I am ready not only to be bound, but to dye for the sake of Christ at Jerusalem; my life is not dear to me, no more then a rush at my foot, that I may finish my course with joy: for thy sake we are killed all the day long.