A93085:33
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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Now in Vers. the 5. and 6. is set down the repentance of the people with their Princes especially. Shemajah, who no doubt had spoke against their idolatrous courses before, takes his season when they were low and tamed, and tells them the true cause of their misery, Vers. 5. Many sins there were in the Land, as Idolatry, and Whoredoms, &c. yet the venom was, They had forsaken the Lord: Let the sin be what it will be, yet let it be such a one as men forsake the Lord by it, that's the provocation; hereupon they humble themselves, some effectually, some hypocritically, yet all outwardly, and say the Lord is righteous; they extenuate not their sin, they lay not the blame on man, no not on ⟨p. 3⟩Shishak, but see the Lord, justify his proceedings, The Lord is righteous, we unrighteous, although it were more heavy then it is.
Now in Vers. the 5. and 6. is set downe the repentanee of the people with their Princes especially. Shemajah, who no doubt had spoke against their idolatrous courses before, takes his season when they were low and tamed, and tells them the true cause of their misery, Vers. 5. Many sins there were in the Land, as Idolatry, and Whoredomes, &c. yet the venom was, They had forsaken the Lord: Let the sin be what it will be, yet let it be such a one as men forsake the Lord by it, that's the provocation; hereupon they humble themselves, some effectually, some hypocritically, yet all outwardly, and say the Lord is righteous; they extenuate not their sinne, they lay not the blame on man, no not on ⟨p. 3⟩Shishak, but see the Lord, justifie his proceedings, The Lord is righteous, we unrighteous, although it were more heavy then it is.
Now in the 7. Verse, and in the words read is see down the mitigation of Gods plague, and the moderation of his chastisement, I will not pour out all my wrath, yet I think it not fit to show perfect deliverance, I'll make them servants, to let them know, &c.