A93085:284
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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1. Take heed of a Prayerless spirit, and that that lamp go not out. Men under some pressures cry, and 'tis long before they do cry under them, and under their sin; but then at last they do, and when the Lord gives liberty, though they have the guilt of the same sins, and more sins lie on them, yet then like Mariners, when the storms are over fall asleep. Its strange that Israel under Pharaoh cried, and under Gods afflicting hand in denying them water murmured. True thankfulness will help to prize what liberty affords.
1. Take heed of a Prayerlesse spirit, and that that lamp go not out. Men under some pressures cry, and 'tis long before they do cry under them, and under their sin; but then at last they do, and when the Lord gives liberty, though they have the guilt of the same sins, and more sins lie on them, yet then like Marriners, when the stormes are over fall asleep. Its strange that Israel under Pharaoh cried, and under Gods afflicting hand in denying them water murmured. True thankfulnesse will help to prize what liberty affords.
2. An unloving spirit to the Saints. It's that I have oft said; soldiers when they are set against a common enemy are all one, but when at liberty, then they fling javelins at one another's heads, differ in opinion, and in heart and affection, and 'tis not death so to do. Take heed of a rigid, censorious, unloving spirit.
2. An unloving spirit to the Saints. It's that I have oft said; souldiers when they are set against a common enemy are all one, but when at liberty, then they fling javelins at one anothers heads, differ in opinion, and in heart and affection, and 'tis not death so to do. Take heed of a rigid, censorious, unloving spirit.