A93085:165
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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4. Instructing and teaching one another, as occasion serves. Rom. 15.14. And I my self also am persuaded of you my brethren, that you also are full of goodness; filled with all knowledge, able to admonish one another. They were able for to instruct and teach one another. Isa. 54.13. They shall be all taught of God. What God teacheth thee, that do thou teach others; what thou gainest by hearing, or by praying, or meditation; by putting questions to others, sometimes to teach, and sometimes to be taught; and this do, if possible, in all occasional meetings, and worldly discourses; mix with it some sweet truth that God hath taught thee. But now on the other side; when Christians shall meet, and a man is the worse for their fruitless discourse, no savour of any thing of God; Let them meet never so long or often, walking or sitting, this is sad.
4. Instructing and teaching one another, as occasion serves. Rom. 15.14. And I my selfe also am perswaded of you my brethren, that you also are full of goodnesse; filled with all knowledge, able to admonish one another. They were able for to instruct and teach one another. Isa. 54.13. They shall be all taught of God. What God teacheth thee, that do thou teach others; what thou gainest by hearing, or by praying, or meditation; by putting questions to others, sometimes to teach, and sometimes to be taught; and this do, if possible, in all occasional meetings, and worldly discourses; mixe with it some sweet truth that God hath taught thee. But now on the other side; when Christians shall meet, and a man is the worse for their fruitlesse discourse, no savour of any thing of God; Let them meet never so long or often, walking or sitting, this is sad.