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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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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.
And for our selves, what shall I say, I cannot but bless God and wonder to see how 'tis with many, and rejoice to see many precious holy ones, to whom one day in Gods Court is sweeter than a thousand elsewhere: but I must profess and cannot but mourn for others, men that were eminent under bondage, but never worse then here; as if the Lord should say, Look here by your eminent ones; look, and fear, and mourn you Ministers of my house; here be the people you had thought had been converted, and that of all others such a one would never a fallen so; one an opinion takes him, another a lot, another loose company, another his lust, another grows proud, another fierce, another murmuring: what should I name all? Oh that my words might be healing, &c.
And for our selves, what shall I say, I cannot but blesse God and wonder to see how 'tis with many, and rejoyce to see many precious holy ones, to whom one day in Gods Court is sweeter than a thousand elsewhere: but I must professe and cannot but mourn for others, men that were eminent under bondage, but never worse then here; as if the Lord should say, Look here by your eminent ones; look, and fear, and mourn you Ministers of my house; here be the people you had thought had been converted, and that of all others such a one would never a fallen so; one an opinion takes him, another a lot, another loose company, another his lust, another gowes proud, another fierce, another murmuring: what should I name all? Oh that my words might be healing, &c.