A93085:332
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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Answ. No, they never heard it. It's a strange thing, Answ. that such men that read, heard, preached, remembered the Scriptures, and could tell you mysteries in titles, never heard the voice of God; and yet it is most true.
Answ. No, they never heard it. It's a strange thing, Answ. that such men that read, heard, preach't, remembred the Scriptures, and could tell you mysteries in titles, never heard the voice of God; and yet it is most true.
Observat. That mans men may a long time together know and hear the Word of God written and spoken, 1yet never hear the Lord speaking that Word, no not so much as one word, title or syllable; no not so much at once, at any time. This was the estate of the Jews, and this is the estate of all unregenerate men. Hence Christ. Luke 19.41. laments and weeps over Jerusalem, saying, ⟨p. 157⟩Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day, &c.
Observat. That mans men may a long time together know and heare the Word of God written and spoken, 1yet never hear the Lord speaking that Word, no not so much as one word, title or syllable; no not so much at once, at any time. This was the estate of the Jewes, and this is the estate of all unregenerate men. Hence Christ. Luke 19.41. laments and weeps over Jerusalem, saying, ⟨p. 157⟩Oh that thou hadst known in this thy day, &c.