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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.
THE Sound Believer. › Chapter 1 › Section 4: The third Act of Christ's Power, which is Humiliation.
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2. Remember what thou art, viz. a polluted Vessel, a kind of infinite endless Evil, as I have oft said; see the Picture of thy own Vileness in the Damned in Hell who are full, and shall through' all Eternity pour out all manner of Evil, Job 40.3, 4.
2. Remember what thou art, viz. a polluted Vessel, a kind of infinite endless Evil, as I have oft said; see the Picture of thy own Vileness in the Damned in Hell who are full, and shall thro' all Eternity pour out all manner of Evil, Job 40.3, 4.
3. Remember what thou hast been, and how long thou hast made War against Christ with all thy Might and Heart, and Strength; why should the Lord therefore choose thee before others, Jer. 3.5. when as, (ask thy Conscience) was there ever such a Wretch since the World began as thou hast been.
4. Remember what thou wilt be; fit for no use to Jesus Christ, good for nothing, but to pollute his Holy Name when thou meddlest with it; and why should the Lord take up such a dry Leaf, Isa. 64.6. and breath upon such a dry Bone?
4. Remember what thou wilt be; fit for no use to Jesus Christ, good for nothing, but to pollute his Holy Name when thou medlest with it; and why should the Lord take up such a dry Leaf,