A93085:13
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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He was lecturer a while at Earls-cone in Essex (which I take it was the first place of his Ministry) where he did much good, and the people there, though now it is long since and many are gone, yet they have a very precious & and deep remembrance of him, of the mighty power of God by him to this day. But W. Laud then Bishop of London soon stopped his mouth, and drove him away, a• he did many other godly Ministers from Essex at the same time. After this he l•ved at Butter-chrome in Yorkshire, at Sir Richard Darley's house, till the iniquity of those times hunted him thence also. Then he went to Northumberland till silenced there also; and being thus molested and chased up and down at home, he fled to New-England, and after some difficulties and delays, by great storms and disasters at sea upon the sands and ⟨image 4⟩coasts of Yarmouth, which retarded his voyage till another year, he arrived there at last; where he was Pastor to a precious flock at Cambridge about fourteen years. He was but 46. or 47. years old when he dyed. His sickness began with a sore throat, and then a squinancy, and then a fever, whereof he dyed August 23. 1649. This was one thing he said upon his deathbed, Lord, I am vile, but thou art righteous; and to those that were about him, he bade them love Jesus Christ dearly, that little part that I have in him, is no small comfort to me now.
He was lecturer a while at Earles-cone in Essex (which I take it was the first place of his Ministery) where he did much good, and the people there, though now it is long since and many are gone, yet they have a very precious & and deep remembrance of him, of the mighty power of God by him to this day. But W. Lawd then Bishop of London soon stopt his mouth, and drove him away, a• he did many other godly Ministers from Essex at the same time. After this he l•ved at Butter-chrome in Yorkshire, at Sir Richard Darleys house, till the iniquity of those times hunted him thence also. Then he went to Northumberland till silenced there also; and being thus molested and chased up and down at home, he fled to New-England, and after some difficulties and delays, by great stormes and disasters at sea upon the sands and ⟨image 4⟩