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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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7. By this you glorify God exceedingly, as Abraham believed, Rom. 4. and gave Glory unto God. In the Lord shall all the Seed of Israel be justified, and shall Glory, Isai. 45.15.
1. By this you glorify him perfectly in an Instant, for you continue to do all that the Law requires that Instant you believe. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. Whether a Christian by Faith doth make Void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, But we establish the Law. How is that? Praeus shows three Ways: One is this, Because that perfect Righteousness which the Law requires of us, we perform it in Christ by Faith. So that in one Instant thou continuest to do all that the Law requires, and hence ari••th the Impossibility of a true Believer's Apostasy, as from one principal Cause: They that deny Satisfaction by Christ's doing of the Law, because by our own Works and Doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny Satisfaction by Christ's Sufferings, because by our Sufferings we cannot be justified; our Obedience to the Law in Way of Suffering, is as ⟨p. 203⟩truly the Works of the Law, as our Obedience in Way of Doing.
1. By this you glorify him perfectly in an Instant, for you continue to do all that the Law requires that Instant you believe. The Apostle propounds the Question, Rom. 3.21. Whether a Christian by Faith doth make Void the Law? No, saith the Apostle, But we establish the Law. How is that? Praeus shews three Ways: One is this, Because that perfect Righteousness which the Law requires of us, we perform it in Christ by Faith. So that in one Instant thou continuest to do all that the Law requires, and hence arith the Impossibility of a true Believer's Apostacy, as from one principal Cause: They that deny Satisfaction by Christ's doing of the Law, because by our own Works and Doings we cannot be justified before God, may as well deny Satisfaction by Christ's Sufferings, because by our Sufferings we cannot be justified; our Obedience to the Law in Way of Suffering, is as