A93085:107
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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Now, for the other, the correcting will of Christ; The Lord hath strong trials: Now here subjection to Christ is required as well as to the directing will of Christ; then the soul submits to this will when the mind objects not, charges not God with folly, as Eli, 1 Sam. 3.18. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good; And likewise the will, though it hath had many sad bouts, yet this is his frame in the conclusion, that the will of Christ is better then every thing else, the will of Christ is alone sweet to him, Isa. 38. saith Hezekiah, Good is the will of the Lord, and so Lam. 3. It's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth, and to turn his cheeks to him that smites him; Nay when there is spiritual evils on the soul, as was on Christ himself, spiritual desertions, nothing but bitterness and sorrow; yet the soul saith, as Christ did, Not my will, but thine ⟨p. 42⟩be done, Father save me from this hour, yet Father glorify thy self, and so the soul does humbly submit it self to the Lord; though the Lord should never pity it, yet it will lye down at the feet of the Lord, now is Gods Kingdom come.
Now, for the other, the correcting will of Christ; The Lord hath strong tryals: Now here subjection to Christ is required as well as to the directing will of Christ; then the soul submits to this will when the minde objects not, charges not God with folly, as Eli, 1 Sam. 3.18. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good; And likewise the will, though it hath had many sad bouts, yet this is his frame in the conclusion, that the will of Christ is better then every thing else, the will of Christ is alone sweet to him, Isa. 38. saith Hezekiah, Good is the will of the Lord, and so Lam. 3. It's good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth, and to turne his cheeks to him that smites him; Nay when there is spiritual evils on the soul, as was on Christ himself, spiritual desertions, nothing but bitternesse and sorrow; yet the soul saith, as Christ did, Not my will, but thine