A93085:235
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. Whoredom, secret lusts and wantonness, and other strange lusts which I cease and dare not name, 1 Kings 14.24. The sin before Shishah came, a sin which many ⟨p. 119⟩times Solomon cannot see through his win dow, nor the eye of authority discern; but God will judge for it, Heb. 13.5. and if he be Judge, who shall be thy Jailer, but Satan? and what shall be thy sentence, but death? and what thy chains, but a hard heart for the present, and horror afterward? A sin which pollutes the very earth, the land, the very dust of the ground; and the cause of all sin almost in a place, as drunkenness, idleness, corrupt opinions, scoffing at the Ministers of God, and ways of God: For I seldom knew a persecutor, but he was an adulterer, though it's not always true; and in the end, poverty and mine. And know it, though no mans eye has seen thee, no power of Magistrate can reach thee; this word shall be fire to consume thee, unless thou repent: for thy looks, thy lusts, thy dalliances, thy thoughts, thy speeches, thy endeavours this way, much more for the thing. Mans law shall not bind you here, because it cannot reach you; but know, that Christ is cast off by you.
1. Whoredome, secret lusts and wantonnesse, and other strange lusts which I cease and dare not name, 1 Kings 14.24. The sin before Shishah came, a sin which many ⟨p. 119⟩times Salomon cannot see thorow his win dow, nor the eye of authority discerne; but God will judge for it, Heb. 13.5. and if he be Judge, who shall be thy Jailor, but Satan? and what shall be thy sentence, but death? and what thy chaines, but a hard heart for the present, and horrour afterward? A sin which pollutes the very earth, the land, the very dust of the ground; and the cause of all sin almost in a place, as drunknnesse, idlenesse, corrupt opinions, scoffing at the Ministers of God, and wayes of God: For I seldome knew a persecutor, but he was an adulterer, though it's not alwayes true; and in the end, poverty and mine. And know it, though no mans eye has seen thee, no power of Magistrate can reach thee; this word shall be fire to consume thee, unlesse thou repent: for thy looks, thy lusts, thy dalliances, thy thoughts, thy speeches, thy endeavours this way, much more for the thing. Mans law shall not binde you here, because it cannot reach you; but know, that Christ is cast off by you.