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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. Let him consider the worth and price of Gods promise bought by blood, and for which some men would give a thousand worlds for the benefit and comfort of; and hereby raise up his heart, as by the freeness of it to hope, so by the price of it to esteem of the thing promised, above pearls, and all the honour and pomp of the world.
2. Let him consider the worth and price of Gods promise bought by blood, and for which some men would give a thousand worlds for the benefit and comfort of; and hereby raise up his heart, as by the freenesse of it to hope, so by the price of it to esteem of the thing promised, above pearls, and all the honour and pomp of the world.
3. Let him consider the fullness of the promise, which is a plaster as big as his sore, just answerable to all his wants, nay infinitely more large then his wants. And surely these three things will draw his heart to long for the promise, and then you know what is conditionally promised and bequeathed to them that thirst: For similitude is the ground of love. Now when the fullness of the promise is seen, there will appear such a suitableness and fitness of the promise to his soul, that he cannot but long for it.1 Thus much for the fifth trouble.
3. Let him consider the fulnesse of the promise, which is a plaister as big as his sore, just answerable to all his wants, nay infinitely more large then his wants. And surely these three things will draw his heart to long for the promise, and then you know what is conditionally promised and bequeathed to them that thirst: For similitude is the ground of love. Now when the fulnesse of the promise is seen, there will appeare such a suteablenesse and fitnesse of the promise to his soule, that hee cannot but long for it.1 Thus much for the fifth trouble.