A93085:269
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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Do not say, There is no danger of it, here where we have such means, and such liber•••s are.
Answ. 1. Answ. 1 Never such danger of being licentious, as in places of liberty; when no bit nor bridle of external tyranny to curb in.
Answ. 1. Answ. 1 Never such danger of being licentious, as in places of liberty; when no bit nor bridle of externall tyranny to curb in.
2. Look on the Kingdom of Judah here, which in one year all fell.
2. Look on the Kingdome of Judah here, which in one year all fell.
3. Why doth the Lord exercise us with wants and straits? 'tis to humble us, and abate our unruliness. And 'tis the Lords quarrel with his best people to this day; desperate rebellious hearts, that close not with his Government.