A93085:359
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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Oh try your selves here, have you heard, but never heard the voice of the Lord, rushing upon thee with Majesty, speaking to thy hearty and the very secrets of it, but have said, This is for others, and when you have thought the man hath spoken to you, your hearts have then swollen against him? or have you thus heard, but all dies and withers like flowers, the same heart still? or have you had some powerful stroke which remains, but it forceth you not out of your selves to Christ, there to rest, there to joy, there to live, there to die? truly your time hath been spent in vain, you never yet heard the Lord speak. Oh mourn for it, thou art still in thy blood, if he never said Live; in thy bondage, if the Lord never said, Come forth. This is the condition of many to be lamented with tears. But if thou hast thus heard particularly, and though bat little light, life and peace, yet it is of eternal efficacy, and all to draw thee to Christ; then bless the Lord: For blessed are your ears that hear, and I say as Moses said, Deut. 4.32. Ask, if ever People heard God speaking and live. The Apostle, Heb. 12.24. makes it a greater matter to come to hear God on Mount Zion, and yet live; Blessed be God I live.
Oh try your selves here, have you heard, but never heard the voice of the Lord, rushing upon thee with Majesty, speaking to thy hearty and the very secrets of it, but have said, This is for others, and when you have thought the man hath spoken to you, your hearts have then swollen against him? or have you thus heard, but all dies and withers like flowers, the same heart still? or have you had some powerful stroke which remaines, but it forceth you not out of your selves to Christ, there to rest, there to joy, there to live, there to die? truly your time hath been spent in vain, you never yet heard the Lord speak. Oh mourn for it, thou art still in thy blood, if he never said Live; in thy bondage, if the Lord never said, Come forth. This is the condition of many to be lamented with teares. But if thou hast thus heard particularly, and though bat little light, life and peace, yet it is of eternal efficacy, and all to draw thee to Christ; then blesse the Lord: For blessed are jour eares that hear, and I say as Moses said, Deut. 4.32. Ask, if ever People heard God speaking and live. The Apostle,