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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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2. Sometimes the Lord turns the edge of that lawful authority God hath set over them against themselves, to be a heavy scourge from God upon them: Thus it was with Israel in Egypt, Exod. 1.8, 9. there arose a King which knew not Joseph, and it's said then they were oppressed. Thus Jeroboam whom the ten Tribes chose, Hos. 5.11. he oppressed the people, he will be innovating, ⟨p. 13⟩and this becomes their oppression: Thus the people under the reign of degenerate Solomon (though their complaint might be in part unjust.) Such is the venom of sin and unsubduednesse to the Kingdom God, that the Lord turns light into darkness, and makes an aching head matter of sorrow to all the state and body of people. Eccles. 10.16. Woe to thee, O Land, when thy King is a child. And one man shall do a world of hurt, one Shebna or Amaziah, and this the Lord doth in justice many times for casting off his government.
2. Sometimes the Lord turnes the edge of that lawful authority God hath set over them against themselves, to be a heavy scourge from God upon them: Thus it was with Israel in Egypt, Exod. 1.8, 9. there arose a King which knew not Joseph, and it's said then they were oppressed. Thus Jeroboam whom the ten Tribes chose, Hos. 5.11. he oppressed the people, he will be innovating, ⟨p. 13⟩and this becomes their oppression: Thus the people under the reign of degenerate Solomon (though their complaint might be in part unjust.) Such is the venome of sin and unsubduednesse to the Kingdom God, that the Lord turns light into darknesse, and makes an aking head matter of sorrow to all the state and body of people. Eccles. 10.16. Wo to thee, O Land, when thy King is a childe. And one man shall do a world of hurt, one Shebna or Amaziah, and this the Lord doth in justice many times for casting off his government.