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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. The second act is, earnestly to long and come to Christ, to cleave unto Jesus Christ by fervent and ardent desire, that he would make good those absolute promises to you, seeing that they are made to some, and that they do not exclude you; for when you ponder well, and see what wonderful great things the Lord promiseth to some, whose heart cannot but be stirred up to say, as that woman in another case, Lord, give me of that watè• to drink? and as they in the fifth of John, Lord, evermore give us that bread. Now doing this, reflect upon this Second act, and see if unto it, no conditional promise belongs, and you shall find an affirmative answer from the word. For what is this longing after the good, not of some (which many hypocrites do) but of all the promises, but that which the Scripture calls thirsting, who are commanded to come and drink of the waters of life freely. Isa. 55. 1, 2. and hungering, to ⟨p. 36⟩which all good things are promised, Mat. 5. 6. and which coming to Christ (as I spake even now) who hath given this as the first fruit of eternal election, and which kind of people he will never cast away, John 6. 37. Now when you see these promises belonging unto you, why dare you not conclude but that all these absolute ones are yours also.
2. The second act is, earnestly to long and come to Christ, to cleave unto Jesus Christ by servent and ardent desire, that he would make good those absolute promises to you, seeing that they are made to some, and that they doe not exclude you; for when you ponder well, and see what wonderfull great things the Lord promiseth to some, whose heart cannot but be stirred up to say, as that woman in another case, Lord, give me of that watè• to drinke? and as they in the fifth of John, Lord, evermore give us that bread. Now doing this, reflect upon this Second act, and see if unto it, no conditionall promise belongs, and you shall find an affirmative answer from the word. For what is this longing after the good, not of some (which many hypocrites do) but of all the promises, but that which the Scripture calls thirsting, who are commanded to come and drink of the waters of life freely.