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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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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.
Now this was the blessed wisdom of God to put all into sweet subordination one unto another for himself.
Now this was the blessed wisdome of God to put all into sweet subordination one unto another for himfelf.
1. Every one professing his name is made for God, for Christ, as Lord of Lords, unto whom every knee must how, and inwardly subject.
2. Hence the Lord (it being not good to leave man to himself) erects a Kingdom of the Church with his own power, and authority, and government in it for that end.
2. Hence the Lord (it being not good to leave man to himselfe) erects a Kingdome of the Church with his owne power, and authority, and government in it for that end.
3. This being poor and shiftless against inward and outward revenge, hence the Lord sets up Kingdoms of the world, which either rule for this end or these ends or not, if they do not, they are to answer it, and shall one day to Christ, whom God hath