A93085:152
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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There are great heaps of people amongst the Churches here that do stand guilty of this, the Lord humble us for it; that content themselves to stand Aliens. from the Common-wealth of Israel, Eph. 2.12. Strangers from the Covenant of Promise; having no hope, and without God in the world. The Lord is slow to wrath; but there is a threefold bondage. 1. Of sin and Satan. Rev. 22.14, 15. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still; Nay, though there be some beginnings, yet apt to fall back; because, not planted in the courts of the Lord: And hence, Col. 2.5. Joying, and beholding your order, and the ⟨p. 82⟩steadfastness of your faith in Christ, order and steadfastness are joined together. 2. Of misery, Zach. 14.17. And it shall be, that whosoever will not come up of all the families of the Earth unto Jerusalem, to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts; even upon them shall be no rain. 3. Sadness, hence, Isa. 56.7. Even them I will bring to my holy Mountains, and make them joyful in my House of Prayer. To be joyful in the house of Prayer, is promised to such as join themselves to Gods Covenant.
There are great heaps of people amongst the Churches here that do stand guilty of this, the Lord humble us for it; that content themselves to stand Aliens. from the Common-wealth of Israel, Eph. 2.12. Strangers from the Covenant of Promise; having no hope, and without God in the world. The Lord is slow to wrath; but there is a threefold bondage. 1. Of sin and Satan. Rev. 22.14, 15. Let him that is filthy, be filthy still; Nay, though there be some beginnings, yet apt to fall back; because, not planted in the courts of the Lord: And hence,