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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.
1. To go to God by prayer, to give you a resolution of all your doubts, and by some means or other, some light to see whether this is his word or not, Secondly, if this be his word, that he would persuade your heart of it, that it is so: For the least resolution which is Scripture, and which is not, is made by the same persuasion, and sole persuasion of the same Spirit that writ the Scripture. Concerning the Angels that appeared to Mary. see Gerard. and he briefly, (I think) will satisfy you: In your answer to the particular scruples about the Scripture sense, and the dissonancy ⟨p. 48⟩of them. Only this I will add to the last clause about these things, that if the Scripture be inspired by the holy Ghost, and that not in the sum and substance of it, but to every word and sentence of it, which I think you will not doubt of, when you have considered it, then I think it will undeniably follow, that the same Spirit of truth is also a Spirit of order, and hence the method of various penning of it, is from the Spirit too, which you say you stick at.
1. To go to God by prayer, to give you a resolution of all your doubts, and by some meanes or other, some light to see whether this is his word or not, Secondly, if this be his word, that he would perswade your heart of it, that it is so: For the least resolution which is Scripture, and which is not, is made by the same perswasion, and sole perswasion of the same Spirit that writ the Scripture. Concerning the Angels that appeared to Mary. see Gerard. and he briefly, (I thinke) will satisfie you: In your answer to the particular scruples about the Scripture sense, and the dissonancy ⟨p. 48⟩of them. Onely this I will adde to the last clause about these things, that if the Scripture be inspired by the holy Ghost, and that not in the sum and substance of it, but to every word and sentence of it, which I thinke you will not doubt of, when you have considered it, then I thinke it will undeniably follow, that the same Spirit of truth is also a Spirit of order, and hence the method of various penning of it, is from the Spirit too, which you say you sticke at.