A93085:338
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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Reas. 2. From the mighty and wonderful strange power of Satan, Reason 2 which blinds their eyes they cannot see nor hear, 2 Cor. 4.4. never such clear light, never such an effectual Word, as that of the Apostles, yet it was hid; why? The God of this world blinded them, either he will keep such a noise and lumber in their heads, that they cannot hear God speaking for the noise, or else turn himself into an Angel of light, and speak, and by their light will blind them, that the light in them shall be darkness. Rom. 1.22. When men with natural light began to be most wise, then they became ⟨p. 160⟩came the greatest fools: so 'tis with other knowledge of Scripture, and things they hear. Happy were it for many a man if he had never heard nor seen;1 for that which he hath heard and seen keeps him from hearing. Tyre and Sidon would hear sooner then Capernaum that heard most.
Reas. 2. From the mighty and wonderful strange power of Satan, Reason 2 which blindes their eyes they cannot see nor hear, 2 Cor. 4.4. never such clear light, never such an effectual Word, as that of the Apostles, yet it was hid; why? The God of this world blinded them, either he will keep such a noise and lumber in their heads, that they cannot hear God speaking for the noise, or else turn himself into an Angel of light, and speak, and by their light will blinde them, that the light in them shall be darknesse. Rom. 1.22. When men with natural light began to be most wise, then they became ⟨p. 160⟩came the greatest fooles: so 'tis with other knowledge of Scripture, and things they heare. Happy were it for many a man if he had never heard nor seen;1 for that which he hath heard and seen keeps him from hearing. Tyre and Sidon would hear sooner then Capernaum that heard most.