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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 2 › Section 1: First, Justification.
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.
THIS is the first Benefit which immediately follows our Union unto Christ by Faith, that look ⟨p. 190⟩as we are no sooner Children of Adam, and Branches of that Root by natural Generation, but we immediately contract the Guilt of his Sin, and so original Pollution; so we are no sooner made Branches of the second Adam by Vocation, and so united unto Christ by Faith, but immediately we have the Imputation of his Righteousness to our Justification, after which we receive in order of Nature (not Time) our Sanctification; there is no Truth more necessary to be known than this, it being the principal Thing contained in the Gospel, Rom. 1.17. The Law showing how a Man may be just and live; but it hath not the least Word how a sinful Man may be just and not die, this is proper to the Revelation of the Gospel: Let me therefore give you a Taste of the Nature of it.
THIS is the first Benefit which immediately follows our Union unto Christ by Faith, that look ⟨p. 190⟩as we are no sooner Children of Adam, and Branches of that Root by natural Generation, but we immediately contract the Guilt of his Sin, and so original Pollution; so we are no sooner made Branches of the second Adam by Vocation, and so united unto Christ by Faith, but immediately we have the Imputation of his Righteousness to our Justification, after which we receive in order of Nature (not Time) our Sanctification; there is no Truth more necessary to be known than this, it being the principal Thing contained in the Gospel, Rom. 1.17. The Law shewing how a Man may be just and live; but it hath not the least Word how a sinful Man may be just and not die, this is proper to the Revelation of the Gospel: Let me therefore give you a Taste of the Nature of it.