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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
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. Because we were in him as the members in the head, as children in his loins, as debtors in their surety, as branches in their roots: it being just, that as if he standing, all had stood, by imputation of his righteousness; so he falling, all should fall, by the imputation of his sin.
Thus you have seen man's apostasy from God:
Thus you have seen man's apostacy from God:
Q. What is his recovery?
A. It is the Return of man to the favour of God again, merely out of favour, and the exceeding riches of his free grace. Eph. 2.12, 13. Rom. 5.8.
A. It is the Return of man to the favour of God again, meerly out of favour, and the exceeding riches of his free grace.