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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.
Oh Sir, me thinks the sad meditation of this, should make you in all Gods ordinances, where you are apt to say you go immediately to God, to hasten suddenly in your thoughts, affections, praises, to Jesus Christ. Nay, me thinks you ⟨p. 26⟩should speedily have your heart elevated and lifted up to Jesus Christ, and say, I receive this, and taste this from Jesus Christ. Oh, but this is but a taste of the honey-comb with the end of my rod, and if this presence of Christs Spirit I feel now be so sweet, what is himself then?
Oh Sir, me thinks the sad meditation of this, should make you in all Gods ordinances, where you are apt to say you go immediately to God, to hasten suddenly in your thoughts, affections, praises, to Jesus Christ. Nay, me thinks you ⟨p. 26⟩should speedily have your heart elevated and lifted up to Jesus Christ, and say, I receive this, and taste this from Jesus Christ. Oh, but this is but a taste of the hony-comb with the end of my rod, and if this presence of Christs Spirit I feel now be so sweet, what is himselfe then?
3. Thirdly, Labour for increase of love and familiarity with Jesus Christ, by taking notice of him, by coming often to him, by musing daily on his love, as on a fresh thing, by banishing slavish false fears of his forgetfulness of you, and want of everlasting love towards you: and then you know love will carry you speedily to him: amor meus pondus meum. nay, grant that you have been a stranger to Christ, yet restore the love of Christ to life again in your Soul, and when you come to his ordinances where he dwells, your Soul will make its first enquiry for him, neither will it be satisfied till it hath seen him, as we do them we love, towards whom we have been greatest strangers.
3. Thirdly, Labour for increase of love and familiarity with Jesus Christ, by taking notice of him, by comming often to him, by musing daily on his love, as on a fresh thing, by banishing slavish false feares of his forgetfulnesse of you, and want of everlasting love towards you: and then you know love will carry you speedito him: amor meus pondus meum. nay, grant that you have been a stranger to Christ, yet restore the love of Christ to life againe in your Soul, and when you come to his ordinances where he dwells, your Soul will make its first enquiry for him, neither will it be satisfied till it hath seen him, as we do them wee love, towards whom wee have been greatest strangers.