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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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First, sometimes the Lord opens the door of a Kingdom or State, for the inroad ⟨p. 12⟩of some foreign, or it may be barbarous Enemy breaking in sometime by power, coming in sometime by craft, and then ruling like Lions, which the Lord makes to vex and prick the people of God; thus here their lives were spared, but liberties lost. Thus Judg. 2.13, 14. They forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And in vers. 14. The anger of the Lord waxed hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them. Ver. 15. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil. And this the Lord doth many times suddenly, that one would never think that ever the Lord should be so sudden; the Lord can be as quick to punish, as man to sin, and that unexpectedly. Eccl. 9.12. Man knows not his time, but are taken like fish in an evil net suddenly. Lam. 4.12. The kingdoms of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed. Judg. 5.8. They set up new gods, and war was in the gate.
First, sometimes the Lord opens the door of a Kingdome or State, for the inrode ⟨p. 12⟩of some forraign, or it may be barbarous Enemy breaking in sometime by power, coming in sometime by craft, and then ruling like Lions, which the Lord makes to vex and prick the people of God; thus here their lives were spared, but liberties lost. Thus Judg. 2.13, 14. They forsook the Lord, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And in vers. 14. The anger of the Lord waxed hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoylers that spoyled them. Ver. 15. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evill. And this the Lord doth many times suddenly, that one would never thinke that ever the Lord should be so sudden; the Lord can be as quick to punish, as man to sinne, and that unexpectedly.