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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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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, Heb. 10.38. After Sin against the Law, the Lord took Pleasure in glorifying his Grace upon Man fallen, but if you draw back from the Grace of Christ in the Gospel, the Lord will take no Pleasure in you.
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 swares in his Wrath against such a one: He that draws back, my Soul shall take no Pleasure in him, Heb. 10.38. After Sin against the Law, the Lord took Pleasure in glorifying his Grace upon Man fallen, but if you draw back from the Grace of Christ in the Gospel, the Lord will take no Pleasure in you.
4. It provokes the sorest and most unsupportable Wrath, Take heed you despise not him that speaketh, for if they did not escape who refused him that spake on Earth, much less shall we that despise him that speaks from Heaven, Heb. 12.25. Take heed therefore you despise not him that speaketh; the Word Despise signifies in the Original to despise or refuse upon some Colour of Reason: Every Man hath some seeming Reason against believing: One thinks Time is past, another thinks he is excluded by some antecedent Decree of