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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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1. How sweet it is, Experience we say is the Mistress of fools; such is the foolishness of mens hearts that men are many times never truly taught a truth till they are taught it by sense, Prov. 5. 11. and thou mourn at last when thy flesh is consumed; tell a man of all the glory of the Saints, they never understand it till they feel it, tell men of the woe of their ways; they will not believe it till they see it, Psal. 32. 9. Be not as the horse or mule that hath no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle. Hosea 10. 11. Ephraim is like an Heifer that is taught. Like untamed Horses that will cast their rider, unless they be held under and backed, and then they are gentle, so 'tis here; and truly 'tis long before a man can learn the sweet of Christs government: hence Israel must be long in Egyptian bondage, and many long miseries, so that if there be either justice or mercy in the Lord he will do this, and this point shall be true.
1. How sweet it is, Experience we say is the Mistress of fools; such is the foolishness of mens hearts that men are many times never truly taught a truth till they are taught it by sense, Prov. 5. 11. and thou mourn at last when thy flesh is consumed; tell a man of all the glory of the Saints, they never understand it till they feel it, tell men of the woe of their wayes; they will not believe it till they see it, Psal. 32. 9. Be not as the horse or mule that hath no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle. Hosea 10. 11. Ephraim is like an Heifer that is taught. Like untamed Horses that will cast their rider, unlesse they be held under and backt, and then they are gentle, so 'tis here; and truly 'tis long before a man can learn the sweet of Christs government: hence Israel must be long in Egyptian bondage, and many long miseries, so that if there be either justice or mercy in the Lord he will do this, and this point shall be true.