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The first principles of the oracles of God collected
The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shepherd ...The first principles of the oracles of God collected by Thomas Shephard ...
London: printed for John Rothwel, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SUM OF CHRISTIAN RELIGION, In way of Question and Answer.
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.
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?
A. A three-fold work.
1. Of Humiliation, under their misery, death, and sin, as their greatest evil, Act. 2. 37. Mat. 3. 6. 2. Of Vocation, or their drawing to Christ, out of this misery, as to their greatest, and only good, Acts •. 38, 41. 3. Of new Obedience, how they have walked in Christ since called, Act. 9. 26, 27. Mat. 3. 8.
FINIS.