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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 3: Thirdly, Adoption.
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If Sons, then he loves you as Sons, as a Father doth his Sons; you think the Lord loves you not, because you do not alway feel his Love, nor know his Love; is thy Son not thy Child, because while it is young, it knows not the Father that begat it, or because thou art sometime departed from it, and hast it not alway in thine own Arms? Israel saith, My God hath forsaken me and forgotten me, Isai. 49.14. and yet no Mother tenders her Child, as the Lord did them; you think because you have so many Sins & Afflictions one upon another, that the Lord loves you not: Judge righteously, hath thy Child no Father because it is sick long together, and therefore kept under a spare Diet? No, he knows our Mould, and that we are but Dust, and freely chooses us to be his Sons, and hence loves notwithstanding all our Sins, Psal. 89.32, 33. If he sees Ephraim bemoaning his Stubbornness, as well as his Sickness and Weakness, Jer. 31.20. doth not the Lord profess, Is he not my only Son?
If Sons, then he loves you as Sons, as a Father doth his Sons; you think the Lord loves you not, because you do not alway feel his Love, nor know his Love; is thy Son not thy Child, because while it is young, it knows not the Father that begat it, or because thou art sometime departed from it, and hast it not alway in thine own Arms? Israel saith, My God hath forsaken me and forgotten me, Isai. 49.14. and yet no Mother tenders her Child, as the Lord did them; you think because you have so many Sins & Afflictions one upon another, that the Lord loves you not: Judge righteously, hath thy Child no Father because it is sick long together, and therefore kept under a spare Diet? No, he knows our Mould, and that we are but Dust, and freely chuses us to be his Sons, and hence loves notwithstanding all our Sins, Psal. 89.32, 33. If he sees Ephraim bemoaning his Stubbornness, as well as his Sickness and Weakness, Jer. 31.20. doth not the Lord profess, Is he not my only Son?