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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.
1. Cutting off from the wil• Olive Tree, the old Adam. 2. Implanting into the good Olive Tree, the second Adam. The first must go before the second; for where there is perfect Resistance, there can be no perfect Union. But take a Man g••••ing upon his own Root of Nature, there is no•••• but perfect Resistance, Rom. 8.7. And therefore that Resistance must first be taken away, before the Lord draw the Soul to Christ, and by Faith implant it in•o Christ. In a Word, I see not how a Man can wholly resist God and Christ, and yet be united unto him at the same Instant: And therefore the one (in order of Nature at least) goes before the other: And therefore let any Man living prove his Union to Christ, and to his Lust also if he can. You will believe in Christ, many of you, and yet you will have your Whores, and Cups, and Lusts, and World too, and oppose all the Means that would have you from th•se also. I tell you, you shall find one Day how miserably deceived you have been herein. You cannot serve God and Mammon. How can ye believe, saith Christ, John 5.44. that seek Honour one of another? If you can have Christ, and be ambitious too, take him; but how can you believe till the Lord hath broken you off from thence.
1. Cutting off from the wil• Olive Tree, the old Adam. 2. Implanting into the good Olive Tree, the second Adam. The first must go before the second; for where there is perfect Resistance, there can be no perfect Union. But take a Man g••••ing upon his own Root of Nature, there is no•••• but perfect Resistance, Rom. 8.7. And therefore that Resistance must first be taken away, before the Lord draw the Soul to Christ, and by Faith impl•nt it in•o Christ. In a Word, I see not how a Man can wholly resist God and Christ, and yet be united unto him at the same Instant: And therefore the one (in order of Nature at least) goes before the other: And therefore let any Man living prove his Union to Christ, and to his Lust also if he can. You will believe in Christ, many of you, and yet you will have your Whores, and Cups, and Lusts, and World too, and oppose all the Means that would have you from thse also. I tell you, you shall find one Day how miserably deceived you have been herein. You cannot serve God and Mammon. How can ye believe, saith Christ,