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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 you glorify God's Justice; whatever Justice requires to be done or suffered, you give it unto God by Faith in Christ.
3. By this you glorify Grace and Mercy, Eph. 1.7. for by this Means Mercy may over-bound toward you, and you may triumph in it as sure and certain to you. What a blessed Mystery is this! Doth it not grieve you that you cannot glorify God in your Times and Places? Behold the Way, if thou canst not do it by Obedience, thou mayst by Faith: And thereby make Restitution of all God's Glory lost and stolen from him by thy Disobedience to him.
3. By this you glorify Grace and Mercy, Eph. 1.7. for by this Means Mercy may over-bound toward you, and you may triumph in it as sure and certain to you. What a blessed Mistery is this! Doth it not grieve you that you cannot glorify God in your Times and Places? Behold the Way, if thou canst not do it by Obedience, thou mayst by Faith: And thereby make Restitution of all God's Glory lost and stolen from him by thy Disobedience to him.
8. By this you have Peace in your Consciences; by this, Christ's Blood is sprinkled upon them, and that cools the burning Torments of them, Rom. 5.1. The Comers unto the levitical Sacrifices and Washings, (Types of this Offering of Christ) could not thereby be perfected and be without the guilty Conscience of Sin: None of your Duties can pacify Conscience, but as they carry you hither to this Righteousness: but the Comers to this have no more Terrors of Conscience for Sin, I mean they have no just Cause to have any; this Rain-bow appearing over your Heads, is a certain Sign of fair Weather, and that there shall be no more Deluge of Wrath to overwhelm thee.