A93085:229
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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'Tis true, every error is not to be immediately committed, but when 'tis like a ⟨p. 117⟩gangrene; of a Spreading nature, then the Magistrate in due time must cut it off speedily.
Object. Leave them to the Church. Object.
Answ. True, leave them 1. there. Answ. But 2. Sometimes the Church will not, sometimes they are not of any Church. A Papist, an Arminian may come in and leaven and damn many a soul, for which they had better never been; If it were but one, and if he says, I do it with a meek spirit, (their trick of late) and none must meddle, because mercy must be shown to these wolves: A wise shepherd had rather let a hunter come in and kill one of his sheep, then let a wolf or fox escape, Act. 20.29. and see his people persecuted, then their souls worried.
Answ. True, leave them 1. there. Answ. But 2. Sometimes the Church will not, sometimes they are not of any Church. A Papist, an Arminian may come in and leaven and damne many a soul, for which they had better never been; If it were but one, and if he sayes, I do it with a meek spirit, (their trick of late) and none must meddle, because mercy must be shewen to these wolves: A wise shepherd had rather let a hunter come in and kill one of his sheep, then let a wolfe or fox escape, Act. 20.29. and see his people persecuted, then their soules worried.