The first principles of the oracles of God collected

Name: The first principles of the oracles of God collected
Author: Thomas Shepard

The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shepherd ...The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shephard ...

Thomas Shepard 1605–1649London: printed for John Rothwel, 1655

[5], 17 p. · 6.6k words · Wing S3112 · ESTC R37142

Title page typeset from the transcription.

THE SUM OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, In way of Question and Answer. › Part › Q. What benefits are there by joining thus to a particular Church?THE SUM OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, In way of Question and Answer. › Part › Q. What benefits are there by joyning thus to a particular Church?

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.

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:328p. 16–17¶2

2. Hereby they have the promise of special blessing, and on ⟨p. 17⟩their children also. Psal. 133. 3. Exod. 20. 6.

2. Hereby they have the promise of special bless•ng, and on ⟨p. 17⟩their children also. Psal. 133. 3. Exod. 20. 6.

:329p. 17¶3

3. Herein they have the promise of Gods special presence.

:330p. 17¶1

1. Revealing unto them his Will, Psal. 27. 4. Psal. 63. 2, 3.

1. Reveuling unto them his Will, Psal. 27. 4. Psal. 63. 2, 3.

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The first principles of the oracles of God collected

Q. Are there not some who never find these benefits?

Q. What are the miseries of those who carelessly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to join to Gods Church?

Q. What are the miseries of those who carelesly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to joyn to Gods Church?

Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joined to it?

Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joyned to it?

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Q. Are there not some who never find these benefits?

Q. What are the miseries of those who carelessly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to join to Gods Church?

Q. What are the miseries of those who carelesly, and wilfully despise, and so refuse to joyn to Gods Church?

Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joined to it?

Q. What therefore ought people chiefly to labour for, and to hold forth unto the Church, that so they may be joyned to it?