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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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3. Sometimes the Lord gives a people up into the hands of one another to be mutual oppressors of each other, that a man neighbour shall be his oppressor. Zach. 11. 9 I will pity no more the inhabitants of the, land, I will deliver them every one into his neighbours hands. I will feed you no more, that which dyeth let it dye, & that which is cut off let it be cut off, and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. Sometimes the Lord is pleased to send marvellous straits into a place, that men are forced to imbondage themselves sometimes by words as bitter as death, as sharp as arrows; the Lord is pleased for the forsaking of his righteous ways to make a mans self rip his own bowels, the father against the child, the master shall be a scourge to the servant, and the servant shall be a scourge to his master, weary him of his life, the government of the Lord in a mans heart or family being cast off, Mic. 7. 4, 5. Trust not in a friend: No greater bondage in the world then for men professing the Lord, to be desperately set one against another.
3. Sometimes the Lord gives a people up into the hands of one another to be mutuall oppressors of each other, that a man neighbour shall be his oppressor. Zach. 11. 9 I will pitty no more the inhabitaents of the, land, I will deliver them every one into his neighbours hands. I will feed you no more, that which dyeth let it dye, & that which is cut off let it be cut off, and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. Sometimes the Lord is pleased to send marvellous straits into a place, that men are forced to imbondage themselves sometimes by words as bitter as death, as sharp as arrows; the Lord is pleased for the forsaking of his righteous wayes to make a mans self rip his own bowels, the father against the childe, the master shall be a scourage to the servant, and the servant shall be a scourge to his master, weary him of his lffe, the government of the Lord in a mans heart or family being cast off, Mic. 7. 4, 5. Trust not in a friend: No greater bondage in the world then for men professing the Lord, to be desperately set one against another.