A93085:166
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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5. In Comforting those that be sad; 1 Thes. 5.14. and 4. ult. Comfort the feeble-minded, and support the weak; wherefore, comfort one another with these words. There are many sad hearts in Gods Church, and sad things are as wounds to a mans limbs, that make him halt or fall. Oh Brethren, be much in this work, 2 Cor. 1.4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we our ⟨p. 91⟩selves are comforted of God; That a soul may say, such a one came to me, and spake some few words to me; but they were as seasonable, as though the Lord had sent an Angel from heaven to speak to me, and of more worth, then if he had given me many pounds: But now, when this also is neglected, that one Christians hath not a word of encouragement to another, but dry and savourless discourse; this the Lord takes very ill at the hands of his people, that have received comfort from himself in the day of their sorrow and distress.
5. In Comforting those that be sad; 1 Thes. 5.14. and 4. ult. Comfort the feebleminded, and supprt the weak; wherefore, comfort one another with these words. There are many sad hearts in Gods Church, and sad things are as wounds to a mans limbes, that make him halt or fall. Oh Brethren, be much in this work, 2 Cor. 1.4. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we our ⟨p. 91⟩selves are comforted of God; That a soul may say, such a one came to me, and spake some few words to me; but they were as seasonable, as though the Lord had sent an Angel from heaven to speak to me, and of more worth, then if he had given me many pounds: But now, when this also is neglected, that one Christians hath not a word of encouragement to another, but dry and savourless discourse; this the Lord takes very ill at the hands of his people, that have received comfort from himself in the day of their sorrow and distresse.