A93085:201
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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1. For members in matters of great and weighty affairs which concern the good of the whole Church, nay all Churches, never to enquire at Abel is casting off the Lord, as in election of Offices in Church, and Magistrates in the Commonwealth, &c.
1. For members in matters of great and weighty affaires which concerne the good of the whole Church, nay all Churches, never to enquire at Abel is casting off the Lord, as in election of Offices in Church, and Magistrates in the Commonwealth, &c.
2. Hence to receive any opinion different from all the Elders in the Church, and never so much as speak, much less come to a sad debate about it, is to cast off this yoke, and contrary to covenant, and Elders would never have undertook the care of the Church without it; and it sads their hearts that they do their work feebly.
2. Hence to receive any opinion different from all the Elders in the Church, and never so much as speak, much lesse come to a sad debate about it, is to cast off this yoke, and contrary to covenant, and Elders would never have undertooke the care of the Church without it; and it sads their hearts that they do their work feebly.
3. Hence to propose a doubtful question to the Church, which may trouble, or bring an offenders sin to the Church without counsel of the Elders, who may encourage them if of God, and ripen it for the Church, or discourage it if not of God. Christ when he writes to the Churches, he superscribes his epistles to the Angels, & if one man may propose a doubtful opinion, another may, and a third, and one may side with another, and so much confusion will follow.