A93085:147
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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and sin and Satan as strong again as ever, and ye find not your sin wasting and consuming; in truth the Lord Jesus is cast off, and ye have not the end for which ye come to the Ordinances of the Lord. But then, ye are blessed for ever when ye find this.
and sin and Satan as strong again as ever, and ye finde not your sin wasting and consuming; in truth the Lord Jesus is cast off, and ye have not the end for which ye come to the Ordinances of the Lord. But then, ye are blessed for ever when ye finde this.
2. There is a derivative power of Christ to the Church, jointly considered together. Matth. 18.17. Go and tell the Church, is the highest tribunal Christ hath on earth in the Kingdom of Saints. 'Tis Christs high Court of Parliament, beyond which there is no appeal to any higher power then the Church; and it cannot be meant of the Officers of the Church (which is the fairest interpretation). For the case may be that there is but one Officer, and is he the Church? as also that he may sin, and not hear of his sin, and must they leave him to himself, at ⟨p. 79⟩least to judge of his sin? The power of Keys was given to Peter, quà fidelis, and the power to bind and loose to two or three gathered together in Christs name, Mat. 18. but these things are known.
2. There is a derivative power of Christ to the Church, joyntly considered together. Matth. 18.17. Go and tell the Church, is the highest tribunal Christ hath on earth in the Kingdome of Saints. 'Tis Christs high Court of Parliament, beyond which there is no appeal to any higher power then the Church; and it cannot be meant of the Officers of the Church (which is the fairest interpretation). For the case may be that there is but one Officer, and is he the Church? as also that he may sin, and not hear of his sin, and must they leave him to himself, at