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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.
Therefore when you are to pray, confer, or meditate, do it with all your mind, and all your thoughts, and all your strength. So when ⟨p. 10⟩God calls you to worldly employments, do them with all your mind and might, and when the season of meditation comes, take it, which glorious ordinance of God, although many Christian use it occasionally, and against some good time, or when they have leisure meeting with them, yet to set some time apart for it in a solemn manner every day, and that in conscience as we do for prayer generally, where is the man to be found that does thus? Those men that thus neglect their season of musing and entering into parley with Gods Spirit daily, may be well said to grieve the Spirit, through the neglect of which ordinance, Gods Spirit is as much grieved by Professors in England, as by any course I know. The Lord awaken us: but I have run too far already in this first part of my answer.
Therefore when you are to pray, confer, or meditate, do it with all your minde, and all your thoughts, and all your strength. So when ⟨p. 10⟩God calls you to worldly employments, do them with all your mind and might, and when the season of meditation comes, take it, which glorious ordinace of God, although many Christiane use it occasionally, and against some good time, or when they have leisure meeting with them, yet to set some time apart for it in a solemn manner every day, and that in conscience as wee doe for prayer generally, where is the man to be found that does thus? Those men that thus neglect their season of musing and entring into parley with Gods Spirit dayly, may be well said to grieve the Spirit, through the neglect of which ordinance, Gods S•irit is as much grieved by Professors in England, as by any course I know. The Lord awaken us: but I have run too farre already in this first part of my answer.
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