A93085:74
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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1. How sweet it is. Experience we say is the Mistress of fools; such is the foolishness of mens hearts that men are many times never truly taught a truth till they are taught it by sense. Prov. 5.11. and thou mourn at last when thy flesh is consumed; tell a man of all the glory of the Saints, they never understand it till they feel it, tell men of the woe of their ways, they will not believe it till they see it. Psal. 32.9. Be not as the horse or mule that hath no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle. Hosea 10.11. Ephraim is like an Heifer that is taught. Like untamed Horses that will cast their rider, unless ⟨p. 18⟩they be held under and backed, and then they are gentle, so 'tis here; and truly 'tis long before a man can learn the sweet of Christs government: hence Israel must be long in Egyptian bondage, and many long miseries, so that if there be either justice or mercy in the Lord he will do this, and this point shall be true.
1. How sweet it is. Experience we say is the Mistris of fooles; such is the foolishnesse of mens hearts that men are many times never truly taught a truth till they are taught it by sense. Prov. 5.11. and thou mourn at last when thy flesh is consumed; tell a man of all the glory of the Saints, they never understand it till they feel it, tell men of the wo of their wayes, they will not beleeve it till they see it. Psal. 32.9. Be not as the horse or mule that hath no understanding, whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle. Hosea 10.11. Ephraim is like an Heifer that is taught. Like untamed Horses that will cast their rider, unlesse ⟨p. 18⟩they be held under and backt, and then they are gentle, so 'tis here; and truly 'tis long before a man can learn the sweet of Christs government: hence Israel must be long in Egyptian bondage, and many long miseries, so that if there be either justice or mercy in the Lord he will do this, and this point shall be true.