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The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…
The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit, in reconciling of a sinner to God. / By Thomas Shepard, sometime of Emanuel-College in Cambridge, since preacher of God's word in New-England. ; [One line from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1742
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
That therefore,
1. There must be some Sense of Misery, before the Application of the Remedy.
2. That this Compunction or Sense of Misery is wrought by the Spirit of Christ, not the Power of Man to prepare himself thereby for further Grace.
2. That this Compunction or Sense of Misery is wro't by the Spirit of Christ, not the Power of Man to prepare himself thereby for further Grace.
3. That these Terrors and Sorrows in the Elect do virtually differ from those in the Reprobate, the one driving the Soul to Christ, the other not; these are agreed on all Hands. The Question only is, Whether there is this farther stroke of severing the Soul from sin, conjoined with the Terrors and Sorrows in the Elect before their closing with Christ, which is not in the Reprobate? Or in one Word, Whether ⟨p. 74⟩