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

If you ask Paul, (as evangelical a Christian as ever lived) what now we are to do when we are in Christ? He answers punctually, 2 Cor. 5.14, 15. The Love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that Christ dying for those that were dead, they that live shall not live unto themselves, but unto him that died for them & rose again.

If we ask Peter the Question, to what End the Lord hath called us out of Darkness into his marvellous Light? He expressly tells you, it is to show forth the Virtues of him that hath so called us, 1 Pet. 2.9.

If we ask Peter the Question, to what End the Lord hath called us out of Darkness into his marvellous Light? He expresly tells you, it is to shew forth the Vertues of him that hath so called us, 1 Pet. 2.9.

If we be doubtful whether this be the Lord's Mind, the Lord himself resolves it by Zechariah, Luke 1.74. and tells us, that 'tis his Oath, That we being delivered out of the Hand• of our Enemies, we should serve him without Fear, in Holiness (in all the Rules of the first Table) and Righteousness (in all Duties of the second Table) all the Days of our Life, and that all this should not be out of a Spirit of Bondage and slavish Fear, but without, Fear, i. e. Fear of our Enemies, Sin, Death, Wrath, and so consequently out of Love to him that delivered us; that one would wonder it should ever enter into the Heart of any christian Man that hath tasted the Love of Christ, as to think that there is no Use of the Law to one in Christ; and that because they are to live the Life of Love to Christ, that therefore they are not to look to the Law as the Rule of their Love, expressly cross to the Letter of the Text,