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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Now this was the blessed wisdom of God to put all into sweet subordination one unto another for himself.
Now this was the blessed wisdome of God to put all into sweet subordination one unto another for himself.
1. Every one professing his name is made for God, for Christ, as Lord of Lords, unto whom every knee must bow, and inwardly subject.
2. Hence the Lord (it being not good to leave man to himself) erects a Kingdom of the Church with his own power, and authority, and government in it for that end.
2. Hence the Lord (it being not good to leave man to himself) erects a Kingdome of the Church with his own power, and authority, and government in it for that end.
3. This being poor shiftless against inward and outward revenge, hence the Lords sets up Kingdoms of the world, which either rule for this end of these ends or not, if they do not, they are to answer it, and shall one days to Christ, whom God hath made head over all things to the Church.