A93085:120
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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1. There is a supreme power of Jesus Christ in his Church and Ordinances thereof, Isa. 9.6. The Government is on his shoulders; it is true this power is on others also, but he is the main. Heb. 3. Moses was only a servant in his House, Christ as a Sonne. The guidance of all things in the Church doth lye chiefly on him, or else it would never be carried along. Christ is a Son, and that in his own House; into whose hands the supreme power of guiding, and ordering all things in the Church of God is put; the experience of Gods Saints and People doth find another power, which shows that the Lord Jesus hath, and doth exercise a mighty power in the ordinances of his Worship; the supreme and kingly power which he exerciseth in the hearts of his people.
1. There is a supreme power of Jesus Christ in his Church and Ordinances thereof, Isa. 9.6. The Government is on his shoulders; it is true this power is on others also, but he is the maine. Heb. 3. Moses was only a servant in his House, Christ as a Sonne. The guidance of all things in the Church doth lye chiefly on him, or else it would never be carried along. Christ is a Son, and that in his own House; into whose hands the supreme power of guiding, and ordering all things in the Church of God is put; the experience of Gods Saints and People doth finde another power, which shewes that the Lord Jesus hath, and doth exercise a mighty power in the ordinances of his Worship; the supreme and kingly power which he exerciseth in the hearts of his people.
Now cast off this kingly power, the Lord himself is cast off; I speak not immediately as in the internal Kingdom, but mediately. And for this, the Lord will bring into bondage, Luk 19.17. Those mine enemies, saith Christ, which would not that I should reign over them; bring them hither, that I may slay them; which is meant of the Lords external administration by his servants.