A93085:298
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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Mot. 2. Consider the difference between the service of the Lord and Shishak.1
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1. The government of others, tyrannical proud men, or sin or Satan, or outward miseries; 'tis full of rigour, force and cruelty. Ezek. 34.4. With force and cruelty have ye ruled them. But Christs Government is there shown to be in mercy, and full of mercy; though sometimes lost, he will fetch thee in again; though sick and weak, he will heal thee again, vers. 16. Deut. 4.6. 'Tis for thy good the Lord hath no need of thy service, &c. True it is, the Lord may show his people hard things, and give them sad miseries; but these wounds do not kill ⟨p. 144⟩them, only make way for healing the distempers of their hearts, that are in his poor weak ones; and his end is to bring them to himself.
1. The government of others, tyrannical proud men, or sin or Satan, or outward miseries; 'tis full of rigour, force and cruelty. Ezek. 34.4. With force and cruelty have ye ruled them. But Christs Government is there shewen to be in mercy, and full of mercy; though sometimes lost, he will fetch thee in again; though sick and weak, he will heal thee again, vers. 16. Deut. 4.6. 'Tis for thy good the Lord hath no need of thy service, &c. True it is, the Lord may shew his people hard things, and give them sad miseries; but these wounds do not kill ⟨p. 144⟩