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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 2: Secondly, Reconciliation.
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4. That the Lord should be thus pacified with Enemies; a Man may be easily pacified with one that offends him a little, but with an Enemy that strikes at his Life, (as by every Sin you do) this is wonderful, yet this is the Case here, Rom. 5.7, 8.
5. That the Lord shall be pacified, even with Enemies, by such a wonderful Way as the Blood of Jesus Christ, Rom. 5.7, 8. this is such Love, as one would think the infinite Wisdom of a blessed God could have devised no greater; by this (v. 6.) he commended and set out his Love, which tho' now it ⟨p. 209⟩grow a stale and common Thing in our Days, yet this is that which is enough to burst the Heart with Astonishment and Amazement, to think that the Party offended, (who therefore had no Cause to seek Peace with us again) should find out such a Way of Peace as this: Woe to the World that despise this Peace.
5. That the Lord shall be pacified, even with Enemies, by such a wonderful Way as the Blood of Jesus Christ, Rom. 5.7, 8. this is such Love, as one would think the infinite Wisdom of a blessed God could have devised no greater; by this (v. 6.) he commended and set out his Love, which tho' now it ⟨p. 209⟩grow a stale and common Thing in our Days, yet this is that which is enough to burst the Heart with Astonishment and Amazement, to think that the Party offended, (who therefore had no Cause to seek Peace with us again) should find out such a Way of Peace as this: Wo to the World that despise this Peace.