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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. I shall show you how every Christian is to make use of them, and how and when he ought to apply them. For the first of these.
2. I shall shew you how every Christian is to make use of them, and how and when hee ought to apply them. For the first of these.
1. First, I conceive that as in respect of God himself, there are many ends which I ⟨p. 28⟩shall not mention, as being needless, so in respect of man, there are principally these two ends for which the Lord hath made absolute promises.
1. First, I conceive that as in respect of God himselfe, there are many ends which I ⟨p. 28⟩shall not mention, as being needlesse, so in respect of man, there are principally these two ends for which the Lord hath made absolute promises.
1. To raise up the Soul of a helpless sinful cursed lost sinner in his own eyes, to some hope (at least) of mercy and help from the Lord. For thus usually every mans Soul is wrought, to whom the Lord doth intend grace and mer•y: he first turns his eyes inward, and makes him to see he is stark naught, and that he hath not one dram of grace in him, who thought himself rich, and wanting nothing before, and consequently, that he is under the curse and wrath of God for the present, and that if the Lord should but stop his breath, and cover his face, and take him away, which he may easily do, and is to be feared he will, that he is undone for ever. Hereupon the Soul is awakened and falls to his kitchen physic, as I spake before, prays, and hears, and amends, and strives to grow better, and to stop up every hole, and to amend it self of every sin, but finding it self to grow worse and worse, and perceiving thereby that he doth but stir, and not cleanse the puddle, and that it is not amending of nature that he must attain to, but he must believe, and make a long arm to Heaven, and apprehend the Lord Jesus, (which so few know, or ever shall enjoy) and hereby quench the wrath of God; I say, finding he cannot do thus, no, nor no means of themselves can help him to this, hereupon he is forsaken of all his self wisdom,