A93085:67
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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3. Sometimes the Lord gives a people up into the hands of one another to be mutual oppressors of each other that a mans neighbour shall be his oppressor. Zach. 11.9. I will pity no more the inhabitants of the land, I will deliver them every one into his neighbours hands. I will feed you no more, that which dieth let it dye, and that which is cut off let it be cut off, and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. Sometimes the Lord is pleased to send marvellous straits into a place, that men are forced to imbondage themselves sometimes by words as bitter as death, as sharp as arrows; the Lord is pleased for the forsaking of his righteous ways to make a mans self rip his own bowels, the father against the child, the master shall be a scourge to the servant, and the servant shall be a scourge to his master, weary him of his ⟨p. 14⟩life, the government of the Lord in a mans heart or family being cast off. Mic. 7.4, 5. Trust not in a friend: No greater bondage in the world then for men professing the Lord, to be desperately set one against another.
3. Sometimes the Lord gives a people up into the hands of one another to be mutual oppressors of each other that a mans neighbour shall be his oppressor. Zach. 11.9. I will pitty no more the inhabitants of the land, I will deliver them every one into his neighbours hands. I will feed you no more, that which dieth let it dye, and that which is cut off let it be cut off, and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another. Sometimes the Lord is pleased to send marvellous straits into a place, that men are forced to imbondage themselves sometimes by words as bitter as death, as sharp as arrows; the Lord is pleased for the forsaking of his righteous wayes to make a mans self rip his own bowels, the father against the childe, the master shall be a scourge to the servant, and the servant shall be a scourge to his master, weary him of his ⟨p. 14⟩life, the government of the Lord in a mans heart or family being cast off.