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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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3. In being oft in his Company, and growing up thereby into a familiar Acquaintance with him; can we be long absent from those we love entirely, if we may come to them? Can we love Christ, and yet be seldom with him, in Word, in Prayer, in Sacraments, in christian Communion, in Meditation and daily Examination of our own Hearts, in his Providences of Mercies, Crosses and Trials? (For Christ is with us here, but those two Ways, in his Ordinances or Providences, by his Holy Spirit) Lord, saith David, I have loved the Habitation of thy House, and the Place where thine Honour dwelleth, Psal. 26.8. The Ground of which is set down, Verse 3. Thy Loving-kindness is before mine Eyes. My Soul longeth for thee as in a Land where no Water is, that I might see thee, as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary; the Reason of it was, because thy Loving-kindness is better than Life, Psal. 63.1, 2, 3.
3. In being oft in his Company, and growing up thereby into a familiar Acquaintance with him; can we be long absent from those we love intirely, if we may come to them? Can we love Christ, and yet be seldom with him, in Word, in Prayer, in Sacraments, in christian Communion, in Meditation and daily Examination of our own Hearts, in his Providences of Mercies, Crosses and Trials? (For Christ is with us here, but those two Ways, in his Ordinances or Providences, by his Holy Spirit) Lord, saith David, I have loved the Habitation of thy House, and the Place where thine Honour dwelleth, Psal. 26.8. The Ground of which is set down, Verse 3. Thy Loving-kindness is before mine Eyes. My Soul longeth for thee as in a Land where no Water is, that I might see thee, as I have seen thee in the Sanctuary; the Reason of it was, because thy Loving-kindness is better than Life, Psal. 63.1, 2, 3.