The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

1. You shall then live like Christ in Glory, Rev. 4.10, 11. we shall speak and think all with Glory, 1 John 3.1, 2. our Strings shall be then raised up to the highest Strain of sweet Melody and Glory.

2. You shall then bless him, Eph. 1.6. and 4.13. and that with Ravishment; you shall come then to the full Acknowledgement of the Son of God; you shall see and say all this is the Work and Grace of Christ, and then shall cry out, Oh let all Angels, Saints ever bless him for this. What shall I speak any more? You will say, Is this certain? Can this be so? Yes assuredly, for Christ is gone to prepare this Place and Glory for you, John 14.2, 3. We have also the first Fruits of this Glory which we feel sometimes, whereby we see, and taste, and drink, and long for more of that Joy unspeakable, and Peace that passeth Understanding, that Triumph over the Rage and working Power of remaining Corruption, that dark Vision of God, and holy Glorying and Boasting in him as our everlasting Portion, &c. which cannot be Delusions and Dreams, which never feed, but ever leave the deceived Soul hungry, but are Realities and Things indeed, which satiate the weary Soul, and fill it up with the very Fullness of God himself, Eph. 3.19. and therefore 'tis certain, that we shall have the Harvest that ⟨p. 242⟩thus taste of the first Fruits, and the whole Sum paid us faithfully that have already the earnest Penny. The Lord also fits us for this, as the Apostle disputes,