A93085:243
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 The will and Law of God only hath Supreme absolute and sovereign power to bind conscience i.e. to urge it or constrain either to excuse for doing well, or to accuse for sin; for conscience is at liberty without this) this is a truth urged by all orthodox Protestant divines against the Papists; so that no law can immediately bind conscience but Gods.
1 The will and Law of God only hath Supreme absolute and sovereign power to binde conscience i.e. to urge it or constrain either to excuse for doing well, or to accuse for sin; for conscience is at liberty without this) this is a truth urged by all orthodox Protestant divines against the Papists; so that no law can immediately binde conscience but Gods.
1. Because he only is Lord of conscience; because he made it, and governs it, and only knows it; and hence he only is fit to prescribe rules for it.
2. Because he only can save or destroy the soul; hath only power to make laws for the soul to bind conscience. James. 4.12. There is one Law giver, who is able to save or destroy. Isa. 33.22. for the law which so binds conscience to a duty that the breach of it is a sin, and that against God: we know that the least sin of it self destroys the soul, binds it over to death, but none have power to destroy it but the Lord himself.
2. Because he only can save or destroy the soule; hath only power to make lawes for the soul to binde conscience.