A93085:206
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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6. They are to feed with power as the word [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth, every one in their places, publicly instructing, exhorting, comforting, and privately also; which though private men may do, yet here is the stamp of authority also, and so the more power the more blessing usually, if God be acknowledged therein. Acts 20.28. Hence
6. They are to feed with power as the word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifieth, every one in their places, publickly instructing, exhorting, comforting, and privately also; which though private men may do, yet here is the stamp of authority also, and so the more power the more blessing usually, if God be acknowledged therein. Acts 20.28. Hence
1. When men despise their food; they are poor things they speak, and they can see no matter in them; and that after study, prayers and tears, &c. and so cast it by; this is to cast off the Lord.
1. When men despise their food; they are poor things they speak, and they can see no matter in them; and that after study, prayers and teares, &c. and so cast it by; this is to cast off the Lord.
2. When men grow glutted and full, Mal. 1. ult. although they eat not a bit, and hence thrive not, but a spirit of slumber and a deep sleep grows on them, that they cannot be awakened by all the ordinances of God. These things call for chains.