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Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Certain 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 / by Thomas Shepherd ...Certain 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 / by Thomas Shephard ...
London: printed by W.H. for John Rothwell, 1650
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.
2. Secondly, If he be in covenant and knows it not, and questions hence whether God is his or not, and consequently, whether the promises belong unto him: then the rule is to be observed, let him so sue and seek for the good of the absolute promise, until by reflecting upon his own acts, herein he perceive himself adorned and dignified with the qualification of some conditional promise, and then if he can find the condition or qualification within himself, then as you judge and write, he may conclude, that the conditional promise belongs to him, and if one promise, then all Gods promises, and therefore that absolute promises are his own, because at least one conditional promise is. For no unregenerate man is within the compass of any one conditional promise of grace, unless you will say he is under the everlasting love of God, the promises of grace being but the midway between the eternal purpose and decree of love, and the glorious certain execution of that love in time. The promise being the break day of Gods most glorious love, which must shine out in time.
2. Secondly, If he be in covenant and knows it not, and questions hence whether God is his or not, and consequently, whether the promises belong unto him: then the rule is to be observed, let him so sue and seeke for the good of the absolute promise, untill by reflecting upon his own acts, herein he perceive himselfe adorned and dignified with the qualification of some conditionall promise, and then if he can finde the condition or qualification within himselfe, then as you judge and write, he may conclude, that the conditionall promise belongs to him, and if one promise, then all Gods promises, and therefore that absolute promises are his owne, because at least one conditional promise is. For no unregenerate man is within the compasse of any one conditionall promise of grace, unlesse you will say he is under the everlasting love of God, the promises of grace being but the midway between the eternall purpose and decree of love, and the glorious certain execution of that love in time. The promise being the breake day of Gods most glorious love, which must shine out in time.
But here you will say is the difficulty,