N04855:133
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
Case 6: CASE VI. Of Unwillingness to and Weariness in solemn Services.
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You find the strength of grace to be got in you rather by argumentation, than inward communication and influence arising from the union to Christ: And this troubles you.
Answ. To which I answer these three things.
1. That as the old sinful nature is communicated from Adam the first to us, without any argumentation; so the new nature, which is the food, foundation, and plot of all grace, is diffused ⟨p. 43⟩into us by the second Adam when we are united to him, without argumentation. It is only by divine operation. The Lord leave not me, nor any friend I have, to a naked Arminian Illumination and Persuasion.
1. That as the old sinful nature is communicated from Adam the first to us, without any argumentation; so the new nature, which is the food, foundation, and plot of all grace, is diffused ⟨p. 43⟩into us by the second Adam when we are united to him, without argumentation. It is only by divine operation. The Lord leave not me, nor any friend I have, to a naked Arminian Illumination and Perswasion.