A93085:59
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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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 ⟨p. 11⟩made head over all things to the Church, Eph. 1.22. If they do, then their government, judgement and kingdom is the Lords in a special manner: and hence break the yoke of subjection to any one of these, you cast off Christ, the Lords government and service; and being so linked together, in truth if you break one you break all, and this will provoke the Lord to make you kiss the clink, and to put your necks under iron bondage that refuse subjection to him.
3. This being poor and shiftlesse 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