A93085:134
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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It is the speech of Luther, Venture in omni religione potentissimum Idolum: When the Belly is served, Christ must be destroyed. Men may have this quiet life without these Ordinances; and hence men bear a privy grudge against the Ordinances of the Lord, because the belly is not served. Look as it was with the Jews; they looked for a glorious King to come to them, and Christ came; and though they were told of it before; when he came, he had nothing but his Cross; and he tells them, If they will be his Disciples, they must take his Cross. But now, because he came not with pomp, but only with his cross, this is the great reason; why to this day the Jews do set themselves against the Lord Jesus Christ; the Cross came with Christ, that's the cause of it: So when men shall look for great things from the Ordinances of Christ, and ⟨p. 66⟩when they come to enjoy them; they meet with nothing else but Christ and his Cross, and disappointments, and desertions; when they meet with this, then Christ is cast off, and they profess he is no King, and Cesar is our King: and if we take this man to be our King; the Romans will ruin us.
It is the speech of Luther, Venter in omni religione potentissimum Idolum: When the Belly is served, Christ must be destroyed. Men may have this quiet life without these Ordinances; and hence men bear a privy grudge against the Ordinances of the Lord, because the belly is not served. Look as it was with the Jews; they looked for a glorious King to come to them, and Christ came; and though they were told of it before; when he came, he had nothing but his Crosse; and he tells them, If they will be his Disciples, they must take his Crosse. But now, because he came not with pomp, but only with his crosse, this is the great reason; why to this day the Jews do set themselves against the Lord Jesus Christ; the Crosse came with Christ, that's the cause of it: So when men shall look for great things from the Ordinances of Christ, and ⟨p. 66⟩when they come to enjoy them; they meet with nothing else but Christ and his Crosse, and disappointments, and desertions; when they meet with this, then Christ is cast off, and they professe he is no King, and Cesar is our King: and if we take this man to be our King; the Romanes will ruine us.