A93085:275
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. The Lord can raise up brambles, and Abimelechs to be the King of the trees, when the Olives and the Vines are loth to forsake their places, and to lose their fatness and sweetness.
2. The Lord can raise up brambles, and Abimelechs to be the King of the trees, when the Olives and the Vines are loth to forsake their places, and to lose their fatnesse and sweetnesse.
3. The Lord can turn the hearts of those in power against people, and let Satan sow suspicions, and sow seditions and clashings.
3. The Lord can turn the hearts of those in power against people, and let Satan sowe suspicions, and sowe seditions and clashings.
4. The Lord can leave us into one another's hands to oppress, to take away the nether millstones.
4. The Lord can leave us into one anothers hands to oppresse, to take away the nether milstones.