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Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve…
Subjection to Christ in all his ordinances and appointments the best means to preserve our liberty : together with a treatise of ineffectual hearing the word ... : with some remarkable passages of His life / by Thomas Shepard ...
London: printed by S.G. for John Rothwell, 1657
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when the soul saith, Lord there was never any change of my nature; the good Lord change it, and if there be any change, the good Lord increase and stir up the graces of thy Spirit in my soul, and do thou lead me and guide me. Brethren, the Kingdom of Christ is come to this soul: John 5. 40. You will not come to me for life; He doth not say, you do not quicken your selves, or ye cannot come to me, but will not; here is their wound, they will not come to Christ for life, Rom. 6. 19. As ye have yielded your members servants to sin and Satan, so now yield up your selves servants to righteousness and to holiness, Psal. 119. 5, 6. Thou hast commanded that we should keep thy precepts continually. Oh that my heart were directed to keep thy precepts continually! Oh that my heart were directed to keep thy statutes! When a Christian is grappling with his own heart, ye will never be able to overcome the unsubduednesse thereof; but when ye bring them to the ⟨p. 27⟩Lord Jesus Christ, that he would take a course with them. 1. Now ye please Christ. 2. Ye take a sure course to have the will of God done, he being in office for that end; for Him hath God exalted to be a Prince and Saviour to Israel: When the soul doth look up to the Lord Jesus, and lye under the power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus. 3. You now make the yoke of Christ sweet, and his name glorious; nothing glorifies Christ so much as this, when Jesus doth work in a Christian, now the kingdom of Christ is come to the soul, and that in power.
when the soul saith, Lord there was never any change of my nature; the good Lord change it, and if there be any change, the good Lord increase and stir up the graces of thy Spirit in my soul, and do thou lead me and guide me. Brethren, the Kingdome of Christ is come to this soul: Iohn 5. 40. You will not come to me for life; He doth not say, you do not quicken your selves, or ye cannot come to me, but will not; here is their wound, they will not come to Christ for life,