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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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3. Why doth the Lord do thus?
Quest. 1. What is this government or service of God, Quest. 1 which being shaken off the Lord gives them over to bondage?
Ans. There is a double government of the Lord over his people. Answ.
1. Internal or inward, of which our Saviour speaks, Luk. 17.21. The kingdom of God (saith Christ) comes vot by observation and outward pomp; For behold the kingdom of God is within you: And this is nothing else in general, but when the Lord doth by his Spirit in the word of his grace cause the whole soul willingly to submit and subject it self to the whole will of God so far as it's made known to it; this is the inward kingdom of God & government of Christ in the soul. Rō. 8.14. So many as are led by the Spirit are the sont of God. Ps. 110.2. The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion, &c.