A93085:39
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ, There are two things in service. 1. Government. 2. Subjection: cheerful obedience to that government. Both the Hebrew word, as also the nature of the thing it self hath these two.
Answ, There are two things in service. 1. Government. 2. Subjection: cheerfull obedience to that government. Both the Hebrew word, as also the nature of the thing it selfe hath these two.
God sets up his government over a people, his people do or should subject cheerfully to this government; By my service is therefore meant my government, and your subjection wrought by me to this government.
2. They shall know.
1. Not by the knowledge of the brain, for that they know now, but knowledge of experience, as it's said in Ezek. 6. ult. When I shall have made the Land desolate in all their habitations, they shall know that I am the Lord. Now what shall they know of it?