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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 2 › Section 1: First, Justification.
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Answ. 'Tis God the Father, Rom. 8.34. Father forgive them, saith Christ. And hence Christ is an Advocate with the Father, 1 John 2.2. All the three Persons were wronged by Sin; yet the Wrong was chiefly against the Father, because his Manner of Working appeared chiefly in Creation, from the Righteousness of which, Man fell by Sin. The Father forgives primarily by sovereign Authority; ⟨p. 193⟩the Son of Man Christ Jesus forgives by immediate Dispensation and Commission from the Father, John 5.22. Matth. 9.6. the Apostles and their Successors forgive ministerially, John 21.23. The Father forgives by granting Pardon, the Son by procuring, the Ministers (where the Spirit also is) by publishing or applying Pardon: So that this is great Consolation, that God the Father the Party chiefly incensed, 'tis he that justifieth, 'tis he that passeth this gracious Sentence, and then who can condemn?
Answ. 'Tis God the Father, Rom. 8.34. Father forgive them, saith Christ. And hence Christ is an Advocate with the Father, 1 John 2.2. All the three Persons were wronged by Sin; yet the Wrong was chiefly against the Father, because his Manner of Working appear'd chiefly in Creation, from the Righteousness of which, Man fell by Sin. The Father forgives primarily by sovereign Authority; ⟨p. 193⟩the Son of Man Christ Jesus forgives by immediate Dispensation and Commission from the Father, John 5.22. Matth. 9.6. the Apostles and their Successors forgive ministerially,