A93085:139
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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Secondly, Unbrokenness of heart in the enjoyment of Ordinances, when men live not in a daily sense of the extreme need they stand in of mercy: Isa. 66.1, 2. Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool; Now observe what the Lord doth there speak, To him will I look that is poor in spirit and contrite; such a poor soul, saith the Lord, will I look to; and to these are opposed, such as have not such hearts, but do look only to the Ordinances of the Lord: Now▪ saith the Lord to such; He that offereth a lamb, is as if he cut off a dogs neck; and he that offereth incense, as he that blesseth an Idol. These were a people that did plead for the Temple of the Lord, and had the Ordinances of the Lord according to his command; but here was their wound, they were not broken under the Ordinances of the Lord: This you shall find, the Saints have many sins and wants under the Ordinances of the Lord: but little does the world know their groanings before the Lord, and the Lord hath mercy for such souls as are sensible of their need they stand ⟨p. 71⟩in of the Ordinances of the Lord.
Secondly, Unbrokennesse of heart in the enjoyment of Ordinances, when men live not in a daily sense of the extreme need they stand in of mercy: Isa. 66.1, 2. Heaven is my throne, and the Earth is my footstool; Now observe what the Lord doth there speak, To him will I look that is poor in spirit and contrite; such a poor soul, saith the Lord, will I look to; and to these are opposed, such as have not such hearts, but do look only to the Ordinances of the Lord: Now▪ saith the Lord to such; He that offereth a lamb, is as if he cut off a dogs neck; and he that offereth incense, as he that blesseth an Idol. These were a people that did plead for the Temple of the Lord, and had the Ordinances of the Lord according to his command; but here was their wound, they were not broken under the Ordinances of the Lord: This you shall finde, the Saints have many sins and wants under the Ordinances of the Lord: but little does the world know their gronings before the Lord, and the Lord hath mercy for such soules as are sensible of their need they stand