A93085:68
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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4. By taking from a people all that righteous power of government the Lord hath set over them, when a people despising the Lord and inward government first (for there all begins) and so not prizing what they have, nor praying for them, nor subjecting to them, the Lord hereupon sends some sickness, or some other evil, that they are either suddenly taken away, or gradually, and when they are gone, all sink, or else such cross carriages, that as Moses said, so say they, I cannot bear this people. Thus Judges 21.25. Men did what was right in their own eyes when there was no King in Israel. No State so miserable as an Anarchy, when every one is a slave, because every one will be a master. Thus, Isa. 3.1, 2.6. Be a ruler to us. No, I'll not undertake to rule. So, 2 Chron. 15.3, 5. when without a teaching Priest, then no peace at all, men will not be under government of them, you shall not have them, they shall rest in peace, and you shall then know the want of them.
4. By taking from a people all that righteous power of government the Lord hath set over them, when a people despising the Lord and inward government first (for there all begins) and so not prizing what they have, nor praying for them, nor subjecting to them, the Lord hereupon sends some sicknesse, or some other evill, that they are either suddenly taken away, or gradually, and when they are gone, all sink, or else such crosse carriages, that as Moses said, so say they, I cannot beare this people. Thus Judges 21.25. Men did what was right in their owne eyes when there was no King in Israel. No State so miserable as an Anarchie, when every one is a slave, because every one will be a master. Thus, Isa. 3.1, 2.6. Be a ruler to us. No, I'le not undertake to rule. So, 2 Chron. 15.3, 5. when without a teaching Priest, then no peace at all, men will not be under government of them, you shall not have them, they shall rest in peace, and you shall then know the want of them.