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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; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shepherd, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michel pastor of the said church in New England.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; how we may know whether we have heard the same effectually: and by what means it may be come effectual unto us. With some remarkable passages of his life. By Tho. Shephard, late pastor of the Church of Christ in Cambridge in New-England. Now published by Mr. Jonathan Michell pastor of the said church in New England.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1652
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Certainly, here is the wound of many men: The Gospel of God never hath its proper effect, till the Lord help thee to give thy whole heart thus to a Saviour, to a God, to the Prince of peace; and till this is done, the Gospel is ineffectual, it doth nothing. ⟨p. 38⟩It was a sweet prayer of him, Make thy Son dear, very dear, exceeding dear, only dear and precious, or not at all; If thou hadst a thousand hearts, it was too little for Christ to love him, and dost grudge him one? when thou hast imparted thy heart, and esteem to thy lusts and creature; dost thou love the Lord with part of thy heart? but a vile lust, a poor creature must have a share, and the remnant will serve Christ, is he not the only pearl of thy heart, to give him daily communion, no this thou art a stranger to. Hear ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, God will Work, a work in your days. What is that? the infinite God cannot express as it were, the wrath that shall come against such a soul; nor I cannot express the wrath that shall come upon such a despiser of the Lord Jesus. Give him all thy heart or none; if thou hast the Lord, thou hast his whole heart; if he had had a thousand lives, he would have laid them all down for thee: He poured out his blood for every one of his, but for the present thou art out of the Kingdom of God to this day.
Certainly, here is the wound of many men: The Gospel of God never hath its proper effect, till the Lord help thee to give thy whole heart thus to a Saviour, to a God, to the Prince of peace; and till this is done, the Gospel is ineffectual, it doth nothing. ⟨p. 38⟩It was a sweet prayer of him, Make thy Sonne dear, very dear, exceeding dear, only dear and precious, or not at all; If thou hadst a thousand hearts, it was too little for Christ to love him, and do'st grudge him one? when thou hast imparted thy heart, and esteem to thy lusts and creature; do'st thou love the Lord with part of thy heart? but a vile lust, a poor creature must have a share, and the remnant will serve Christ, is he not the only pearl of thy heart, to give him daily communion, no this thou art a stranger to. Hear ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, God will Work, a worke in your dayes. What is that? the infinit God cannot expresse as it were, the wrath that shall come against such a soul; nor I cannot expresse the wrath that shall come upon such a despiser of the Lord Jesus. Give him all thy heart or none; if thou hast the Lord, thou hast his whole heart; if he had had a thousand lives, he would have laid them all down for thee: He poured out his blood for every one of his, but for the present thou art out of the Kingdom of God to this day.