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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. Secondly, See evidently that there is not any dram or drop of God you have, especially in Gods ordinances, but it issues from the blood, and is purchased by the intercession, and delivered unto you by the hand of Jesus Christ. Ephes. 1. 7. Hebr. 7. 25. John 5. 22. You should never have heard the sound of the gospel, nor never have had day of Patience, nor never ⟨p. 25⟩have heard of Gods Ordinances to find him in, nor never have been comforted, quickened, enlarged, affected by God Ordinances, were it not for Jesus Christ, the efficacy of whose blood, and power of whose glorious intercession, doth at the very instant you feel any good in Gods Ordinances, prevail with God the Father for what you feel; for the Father loveth the Son, and hath put all things into his hands, John. 4. 35. that all men might honour the Son; all the three Persons plotting chiefly for the honour of the second; so that you may see, nay you are bound to believe, at the time you feel your heart savingly affected in any ordinance now, the Lord Jesus who is at the right hand of God in heaven, who is now in his glory, now he remembering me a pot worm on earth, now I feel the fruit of his death. O what a miserable forlorn wretch had I been, were it not for Jesus Christ? Mercy could never have helped, enlightened, comforted, quickened, assured, enlarged me, and Justice could never have relieved my dead, bloody, perishing lost Soul, had it not been for Jesus Christ, whose Spirit, power, grace, comfort, presence, sweetness, I taste, drink, and am satisfied abundantly with, and now do enjoy.
2. Secondly, See evidently that there is not any dram or drop of God you have, especially in Gods ordinances, but it issues from the blood, and is purchased by the intercession, and delivered unto you by the hand of Jesus Christ. Eph•s. 1. 7. H•br. 7. 25. Iohn 5. 22. You should never have heard the sound of the gospel, nor never have had day of Patience, nor never ⟨p. 25⟩