A93085:214
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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Quest. When is Christs Power and Kingdom cast off here? Quest.
Quest. When is Christs Power and Kingdome cast off here? Quest.
Answ. There is a double Power in the Kingdoms of the world, Answ. which I suppose, when they become Christs Kingdoms, they will retain.
Answ. There is a double Power in the Kingdomes of the world, Answ. which I suppose, when they become Christs Kingdomes, they will retaine.
First, There is some supreme or higher power; in the chief Magistrates, Princes, or chief Court of Justice.
Secondly, There is some inferior power, by some superior power, set over particular Persons, Cities, and Townes, for the well ordering of them. The ground of this is, that natural necessity which Jethro propounded from God to Moses,