A93085:172
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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3. Sloth. There are Thorns, Prov. 15.19. and Lions, Prov. 26.13. in a sluggards way: There be many difficulties, businesses, occasion, and objections; when as if once he were resolved to break thorough them, then the work would go on: Like a man, when he is in his warm bed, he is loth to rise; but when he is up, he would not be in his bed again, if he might be hired again to put off his clothes: I shall get no good, saith one, nor do none, saith another; and when these businesses are past, and occasions over; and at another time, I will seek God, and go about Gods work; and thus a slothful spirit hinders.
3. Sloth. There are Thornes, Prov. 15.19. and Lions, Prov. 26.13. in a sluggards way: There be many difficulties, businesses, occasion, and objections; when as if once he were resolved to break thorough them, then the work would go on: Like a man, when he is in his warme bed, he is loth to rise; but when he is up, he would not be in his bed againe, if he might be hired again to put off his clothes: I shall get no good, saith one, nor do none, saith another; and when these businesses are past, and occasions over; and at another time, I will seek God, and go about Gods worke; and thus a slothfull spirit hinders.
4. Want of Faith. 2 Cor. 4.13. We believe, and hence we speak. Faith empties us most, and hence fills us with Spirit and Life of Christ Jesus; hence Steven, full of faith, and the holy Ghost. A lively Christian, when he comes in another Christians company, it may be he knows not what to speak; but he looks up to Christ, and says; Now Lord, here is an opportunity in doing or receiving some good; and therefore now Lord, help.