A93085:126
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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'Tis true, the Saints and people of God may be said in some case to break Covenant, but yet they never impenitently break Covenant with the Lord; they may break Covenant with the Lord very often, but yet it is with them as those in Judges 2.1, 4. When the Angel of the Lord came to them, and they were under grievous sad bondage; faith he to them from the Lord: I have brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I have broke your bonds; and I have said, I would never break Covenant with you: and I said, you should make no League with the Canaanites, but ye have not obeyed my voice; why have ye done this? And all the people heard this; and it is said, All the people wept. Doubtless some were sincere, though happily many were full of hypocrisy; and so the sincere heart laments it, and renews his ⟨p. 59⟩Covenant. The poor soul hath nothing to say many times, though the Lord should bring never so much misery on it; yet the soul stands weeping before the Lord, that it hath broke the Covenant of the Lord, and made void the Covenant of the Lord; yet the Saints they never break it wholly, they never depart wholly from the Lord.
'Tis true, the Saints and people of God may be said in some case to break Covenant, but yet they never impenitently break Covenant with the Lord; they may break Covenant with the Lord very often, but yet it is with them as those in Judges 2.1, 4. When the Angel of the Lord came to them, and they were under grievous sad bondage; faith he to them from the Lord: I have brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and I have broke your bonds; and I have said, I would never break Covenant with you: and I said, you should make no League with the Canaanites, but ye have not obeyed my voice; why have ye done this? And all the people heard this; and it is said, All the people wept. Doubtlesse some were sincere, though happily many were full of hypocrisie; and so the sincere heart laments it, and renewes his ⟨p. 59⟩Covenant. The poor soul hath nothing to say many times, though the Lord should bring never so much misery on it; yet the soul stands weeping before the Lord, that it hath broke the Covenant of the Lord, and made void the Covenant of the Lord; yet the Saints they never break it wholly, they never depart wholly from the Lord.