A93085:169
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now here I will show you the causes of this.
Now here I will shew you the causes of this.
1. Not gaining much in private duties, in Prayer, Meditation, Reading, and daily Examination of a mans own heart: And hence they cannot do good, because they receive none, or very little themselves; they have not a treasure within, hence they can spend little, have no heart or ability to exhort, instruct, comfort: He that keeps not his shop, his shop will never keep him. As Psal. 41.6. His heart gathereth iniquity to it self, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
1. Not gaining much in private dutties, in Prayer, Meditation, Reading, and daily Examination of a mans own heart: And hence they cannot do good, because they receive none, or very little themselves; they have not a treasure within, hence they can spend little, have no heart or ability to exhort, instruct, comfort: He that keeps not his shop, his shop will never keep him. As Psal. 41.6. His heart gathereth iniquity to it self, when he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
2. A low spirit, which makes a man to have low thoughts, and endeavours, I mean not an humble, but a narrow spirit, not enlarged to hold much, or to do much, hence it doth little. As take a plain countryman, he neither seeks or regards the affairs of the State in public, because his spirit and condition is low; but Princes do mind and attend to the affairs of the Kingdom, to advance it; because their condition is high, and they know it. Moses, he suffered reproach with the people of God, loss of all the honour and pleasure of Pharaohs Court; feared not Pharaoh, nor loss of life for their