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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 4: Fourthly, Sanctification.
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Only see and for ever prize this Privilege, all you blessed Souls, whom the Lord hath justified; thou hast many sad Complaints, what is it to me, if I be justified in Christ, and be saved at last by Christ, and my Heart remain all this while unholy & unsubdued unto the Will of Christ; that he should comfort me, and my holy Heart be alway grieving of him; what tho' the Lord save me from Misery, but saves me not from my Sin; Oh consider this Benefit. It is true, thou findest a woeful, sinful Nature within thee, cross ⟨p. 221⟩and contrary unto Holiness, and leading thee daily in Captivity; yet remember the Lord hath given thee another Nature, a new Nature; there is something else within thee, which makes thee wrestle against Sin; and shall in Time prevail over all Sin, Mat. 12.20. this is the Lord's Grace sanctifying of thee. Oh be thankful that the Lord hath not left thee wholly corrupt but hath begun to glorify himself in thee, and to bless thee in turning thee from thine Iniquities.
Only see and for ever prize this Privilege, all you blessed Souls, whom the Lord hath justified; thou hast many sad Complaints, what is it to me, if I be justified in Christ, and be saved at last by Christ, and my Heart remain all this while unholy & unsubdued unto the Will of Christ; that he should comfort me, and my holy Heart be alway grieving of him; what tho' the Lord save me from Misery, but saves me not from my Sin; Oh consider this Benefit. It is true, thou findest a woful, sinful Nature within thee, cross ⟨p. 221⟩and contrary unto Holiness, and leading thee daily in Captivity; yet remember the Lord hath given thee another Nature, a new Nature; there is something else within thee, which makes thee wrestle against Sin; and shall in Time prevail over all Sin, Mat. 12.20. this is the Lord's Grace sanctifying of thee. Oh be thankful that the Lord hath not left thee wholly corrupt but hath begun to glorify himself in thee, and to bless thee in turning thee from thine Iniquities.