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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
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THE Sound Believer. › Chapter 1 › Section 5 › Explication 5: V. The special Ground of Faith.
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5. How long the Lord hath called thee, how oft he would have gathered thee; he hath stood long until his Locks are wet with the Dew of the Night, Cant. 5.1, 2. It may be you are afraid, it hath been so long, that now Time is past: Oh no, for whiles the Lord calls by his Word and Spirit, now is the acceptable Time, 2 Cor. 6.2. I confess there is a Time wherein the Lord will not be found, but while the Lord is near unto thee by his Ministry, by his Spirit, convincing, affecting, stirring, knocking at thy Heart, the Time is not yet past, the Sun is not yet set, so long as those Beams appear, Isai. 55.6. those Thoughts which discourage thee from coming to Christ, while the Voice of his Call is heard, cannot be of Christ but Satan, whose principal Work is to lay such stumbling-blocks in our Way to him.
5. How long the Lord hath called thee, how oft he would have gathered thee; he hath stood long until his Locks are wet with the Dew of the Night, Cant. 5.1, 2. It may be you are afraid, it hath been so long, that now Time is past: Oh no, for whiles the Lord calls by his Word and Spirit, now is the acceptable Time, 2 Cor. 6.2. I confess there is a Time wherein the Lord will not be found, but while the Lord is near unto thee by his Ministry, by his Spirit, convincing, affecting, stirring, knocking at thy Heart, the Time is not yet past, the Sun is not yet set, so long as those Beams appear, Isai. 55.6. those Tho'ts which discourage thee from coming to Christ, while the Voice of his Call is heard, cannot be of Christ but Satan, whose principal Work is to lay such stumbling-blocks in our Way to him.