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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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1. This is the condemning Sin; for no Sin should condemn thee, if thou didst come to him, John 3.17, 18, 19. thou shouldest please him, and as it were, make him amends for all the Wrongs thou hast done him, by coming to him, Heb. 11.5, 6, 7.
2. This aggravates all other Sins, If I had not spake to them, (saith Christ) they had had no Sin, i. e. comparatively, but now they have no Cloak for their Sin, John 15.22. Can the Sin of Devils be so great as thine, that never had a Saviour sent unto them? Yet thou hast one sent and come out of Heaven to thee, calling to thee from Heaven, and yet thou despisest him.
2. This aggravates all other Sins, If I had not spake to them, (saith Christ) they had had no Sin, i. e. comparatively, but now they have no Cloke for their Sin, John 15.22. Can the Sin of Devils be so great as thine, that never had a Saviour sent unto them? Yet thou hast one sent and come out of Heaven to thee, calling to thee from Heaven, and yet thou despisest him.
3. This provokes the Lord to most unappeasable and unquenchable Wrath, Heb. 3.11. I sware in my Wrath they should not enter into my Rest; after Sins against the Law, the Lord did not sware that Man should die, (for that notes an unchangeable Purpose) but let Christ be despised, the Lord now swears in his Wrath against such a one: He that draws back, my Soul shall take no Pleasure in him,