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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.
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2. By this a Sinner is Righteous before the Judgment Seat of God: What Man that hath Awakenings of Conscience, but trembles exceedingly when he considers the Judgment Seat of God, and of his strict Account there? But by this we can look upon the Face of the Judge himself with Boldness. It is God that justifies, who shall condemn? Rom. 8.32. Can Christ condemn? He is our Advocate. Can Sin condemn? Why did Christ die and was made Sin then? Can Satan condemn, if God himself justify us? If the Judge acquits us, what can the Jailer do? Can the Law condemn? No, the Lord Christ hath fulfilled it for us, to the utmost: Oh the Stings that many have, saying, What shall I do when I die and go down to the Dust? May not the Lord have something against me at the Day of Reckoning that I never saw, nor got cancelled? O poor Creatures! Is Christ now before God without Spot? Hath he cleared all Reckonings? Verily as he is before him, so are you; through' that Righteousness which is in him for you.
2. By this a Sinner is Righteous before the Judgment Seat of God: What Man that hath Awakenings of Conscience, but trembles exceedingly when he considers the Judgment Seat of God, and of his strict Account there? But by this we can look upon the Face of the Judge himself with Boldness. It is God that justifies, who shall condemn? Rom. 8.32. Can Christ condemn? He is our Advocate. Can Sin condemn? Why did Christ die and was made Sin then? Can Satan condemn, if God himself justify us? If the Judge acquits us, what can the Jaylor do? Can the Law condemn? No, the Lord Christ hath fulfilled it for us, to the utmost: Oh the Stings that many have, saying, What shall I do when I die and go down to the Dust? May not the Lord have something against me at the Day of Reckoning that I never saw, nor got cancelled? O poor Creatures! Is Christ now before God without Spot? Hath he cleared all Reckonings? Verily as he is before him, so are you; thro' that Righteousness which is in him for you.