A93085:62
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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Quest. 2. Quest. 2 What is that bondage or other government to which the Lord gives over his people when they have cast off his government, this will provoke the Lord if the Lord be cast off, and the casting off the government of Christ will bring the most famous Kingdoms, Churches and Families into bondage; you will say what is this bondage? when is it that the Lord takes his season for the execution of it?
Quest. 2. Quest. 2 What is that bondage or other government to which the Lord gives over his people when they have cast off his government, this will provoke the Lord if the Lord be cast off, and the casting off the government of Christ will bring the most famous Kingdomes, Churches and Families into bondage; you will say what is this bondage? when is it that the Lord takes his season for the execution of it?
Ans. 1. Answ. 1 The Lord takes his own times to do it, these were a 12. month before the Lord sent Shishak: Here he was more quick. Nebuchadnezzar comes at last▪ and many years 'tis before the Lord doth it.
Ans. 1. Answ. 1 The Lord takes his own times to do it, these were a 12. moneth before the Lord sent Shishak: Here he was more quick. Nebuchadnezzar comes at last▪ and many yeares 'tis before the Lord doth it.
2. The Lord is various in working, Answ. 2 as he is wonderful and hath divers ways or means of bondage, he hath more prisons and chains then one.
2. The Lord is various in working, Answ. 2 as he is wonderfull and hath divers wayes or meanes of bondage, he hath more prisons and chaines then one.