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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.
3. Thirdly, If he be out of the covenant, but yet God begins to work with some common work of his grace upon him: all that I would say to him, and all the use he can make of such absolute promises, consists in these things.
3. Thirdly, If he be out of the covenant, but yet God begins to worke with some common worke of his grace upon him: all that I would say to him, and all the use he can make of such absolute promises, consists in these things.
1. Let him consider the freeness of Gods ⟨p. 38⟩promise, whereby he may be stirred up to conceive some hope it may be made good to him in time. For the promise is very free and large, excluding none (except those that sin unpardonably) be their sins and natures never so vile before God, and yet not including any by name, for that is in the conditional promise▪ and hence such an one is to make this use of it, who knows but the Lord may have pity upon me in time; and so hang thy hope upon him.
1. Let him consider the freenes•e of Gods ⟨p. 38⟩promise, whereby he may be stirred up to conceive some hope it may be made good to him in time. For the promise is very free and large, excluding none (except those that sin unpardonably) be their sinnes and natures never so vile before God, and yet not including any by name, for that is in the conditionall promise▪ and hence such an one is to make this use of it, who knowes but the Lord may have pitty upon me in time; and so hang thy hope upon him.