A93085:280
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Use 6. Use 6 Of thankfulness, for our present liberties and freedom from the bondage of men, bondage of conscience, bondage of Satan and sin: need there is of laying this use seriously to heart, considering two things principally. 1. The general complaints of the Country, as they of Jericho, 2 Kings 2.19. The waters are bad, and the ground barren, and these are engraven in marble, all other our liberties are written on the water. 2. The disgrace and, reproach cast upon Gods people and ways of God, and that unjustly, which I am afraid to mention; whence there grows a contempt of them, and the rivers of Damascus now are better then Jordan. Oh beloved, if it be an heavy hand of God to be under bondage, then look on it as a special grace of God to free us from bondage. Deut. 32.11, 12. The Lord done did lead them, &c. and Moses, 1chap. 33.29. when he had blessed them, Happy art thou Oh Israel, a People saved by the Lord. And the greater cause we have to do this, a People that have abused all liberties. ⟨p. 137⟩Isa. 9.8, 9, 10. He laments it, but yet is thankful for it to Gods grace: no man that can say but he may be as holy as he will, and none to curb or snib.
Ʋse 6. Ʋse 6 Of thankfulnesse, for our present liberties and freedome from the bondage of men, bondage of conscience, bondage of Satan and sin: need there is of laying this use seriously to heart, considering two things principally. 1. The general complaints of the Countrey, as they of Jericho, 2 Kings 2.19. The waters are bad, and the ground barren, and these are engraven in marble, all other our liberties are written on the water. 2. The disgrace and, reproach cast upon Gods people and wayes of God, and that unjustly, which I am afraid to mention; whence there grows a contempt of them, and the rivers of Damascus now are better then Jordan. Oh beloved, if it be an heavy hand of God to be under bondage, then look on it as a special grace of God to free us from bondage.