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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.
So indeed it is usual for religious nature often to out-run and get the start of grace;1 as it appears in many other, so in this case you put; look as it is with every man when God awakens him effectually, he first seeks to his kitchen physic to save himself, by his duties, praying, mourning, reforming, endeavouring, repenting, working, before he will seek out to the Physician, and to Christ to save him. Because it was natural to Adam to seek to live by his working, it is natural to every Son and branch of that root, to seek to save himself by doing as well as he can, or as God gives him the strength and grace. So it is here. It was natural to Adam to depend upon, and go to ⟨p. 23⟩God immediately, as a creature to a Creator, as a Son to go nakedly to God as a Father: Christ was not then known, nor seen: so it is natural to every man, when rectified Nature is stirred up, to go immediately to God. It is grace in the second Covenant that reveals and draws to Jesus Christ, and to God by Christ, Heb. 7. 25.
So indeed it is usuall for religious nature often to out-run and get the start of grace;1 as it appeares in many other, so in this case you put; looke as it is with every man when God awakens him effectually, he first seeks to his kitchin physick to save himselfe, by his duties, praying, mourning, re•orming, endeavouring, repenting, working, before he will seeke out to the Physician, and to Christ to save him. Because it was naturall to Adam to seeke to live by his working, it is naturall to every Son and branch of that root, to seeke to save himselfe by doing as well as hee can, or as God gives him the strength and grace. So it is here. It was naturall to Adam to depend upon, and go to ⟨p. 23⟩God immediately, as a creature to a Creator, as a Sonne to go nakedly to God as a Father: Christ was not then known, nor seen: so it is naturall to every man, when rectified Nature is stirred up, to go immediately to God. It is grace in the second Covenant that reveales and drawes to Jesus Christ, and to God by Christ,