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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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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.
What is the cause of Bleeding Germanies woe? Oh poor Germany! Whence the Gospel first brake out in its full strength, that now 'tis a field of blood, that men in woods like satires are afraid of men, and men in Cities glad to eat the entrails of Beasts, and sometimes the flesh of their own babes to preserve their lives. What was there no evil, but the common condition of the Church to be under the cross? ask them, they cannot tell what ails them, but curse the Emperor and Swedes, &c. ⟨p. 13⟩Oh think of it with sorrow in secret for them that know it not themselves, they have secretly, I say, secretly cast off the government of a merciful Christ, and hence are under the hand of unmerciful men.
What is the cause of Bleeding Germanies wo? Oh poor Germany! Whence the Gospell first brake out in its full strength, that now 'tis a field of blood, that men in woods like satyres are afraid of men, and men in Cities glad to eat the intrailes of Beasts, and sometimes the flesh of their own babes to preserve their lives. What was there no evill, but the common condition of the Church to be under the crosse? ask them, they cannot tell what ailes them, but curse the Emperour and Swedes, &c. ⟨p. 13⟩Oh think of it with sorrow in secret for them that know it not themselves, they have secretly, I say, secretly cast off the government of a mercifull Christ, and hence are under the hand of unmercifull men.
What is the cause in our native Country, notwithstanding all prayers and tears no deliverance? truly men do not know it but the Lord sees it, they know not how to use their liberty.
What is the cause in our native Countrey, notwithstanding all prayers and tears no diliverance? truly men do not know it but the Lord sees it, they know not how to use their liberty.