A93085:246
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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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, Psal. 131.1. how to speak, Mat. 12.36. it descends to the plaiting of the hair, 1 Pet 3.5. moving of the feet, Isa. 3.16. and what is of Christian liberty hath its freedom from the word: a man must give an account at the last day of every stirring of heart, thoughts motives, and secret words; and if so, then it must be according to the rule of the word: and hence the word only hath absolute power to bind Masters, Servants, and Princes, how they govern, and people how they subject; and this the Lord hath done to make men take counsel from him, and walk in fear before him, and approve themselves to him, especially Townsmen in their places not to consult without God.
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. wisdome 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,