A93085:69
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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5. By giving them over to Satan's, and their own hearts lusts, that seeing they will not serve the Lord, they shall serve their ⟨p. 15⟩lusts & their sins, that now the Lord he hath left off chastising of men, and conscience shall check no more, prosper, saith the Lord, and go on in thy sin. Psal. 81.12. So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked after their own counsels. Rev. 22.11. Let him that is filthy be filthy still.
5. By giving them over to Satans, and their own hearts lusts, that seeing they will not serve the Lord, they shall serve their ⟨p. 15⟩lusts & their sins, that now the Lord he hath left off chastising of men, and conscience shal check no more, prosper, saith the Lord, and go on in thy sin. Psal. 81.12. So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked after their owne counsels. Rev. 22.11. Let him that is filthy be filthy still.
When the Lord shall give a man over to Satan, not only to winnow him, to let out the chaff, and so to make the grain the purer, or to buffet them as he did Paul, but to ensnare them, and hold them, that he shall not only tempt, but his temptations shall take, and not only take, but hold. 2 Tim. 2. ult. Who are taken captive by him at his will; taken alive as a snare doth, that now a man is beyond the reach of all means, only peradventure God may give repentance.