A93085:180
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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For though the estate of the Church be Democratical and Popular; and hence no public administrations or Ordinances are to be administrated publicly, without notice and consent of the Church; Yet the government of it under Christ, the Mediator and Monarch of his Church; tis Aristocratical, and by some chief, gifted by Christ, chosen by the people to rule them in the name of Christ, who are unable, and unfit to be all Rulers themselves; and to cast off these, or not to be ruled by these; is to cast off Christ. Luke 10.16. He that rejecteth you, rejecteth me. Numb. 16.3. You are gathered together ⟨p. 97⟩against the Lord; The Lord accounts himself opposed and resisted, when the Officers of his Church are slighted, and their government despised.
For though the estate of the Church be Democratical and Popular; and hence no publick administrations or Ordinances are to be administrated publickly, without notice and consent of the Church; Yet the government of it under Christ, the Mediator and Monarch of his Church; tis Aristocratical, and by some chief, gifted by Christ, chosen by the people to rule them in the name of Christ, who are unable, and unfit to be all Rulers themselves; and to cast off these, or not to be ruled by these; is to cast off Christ. Luke 10.16. He that rejecteth you, rejecteth me. Numb. 16.3. You are gathered together ⟨p. 97⟩against the Lord; The Lord accounts himself opposed and resisted, when the Officers of his Church are slighted, and their government despised.