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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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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. James. 4.12. There is one Law giver, who is able to save or destroy. Isa. 33.22. for the law which so bindes conscience to a duty that the breach of it is a sinne, and that against God: we know that the least sin of it selfe destroyes the soul, bindes it over to death, but none have power to destroy it but the Lord himself.
3. Because the Law is sufficient to guide the whole man, in its whole course, in all the actions or occasions it meddles with, or takes in hand, even in civil as well as in Religious matters. Prov. 2.9. wisdom teacheth ⟨p. 124⟩every good path. Psal. 119 11. I have hid thy word, that I might not sin. Whatever one doth without a rule from the word, is not of faith. Hence the word descends to the most petty occasions of our lives, it teacheth men how to look,