A93085:76
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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Use 2. Use 2 Hence see the reason why the Lord hath deprived his Churches of their liberty, and his government over them at sundry times, and hath put them under Iron yokes, and bonds, and sore pressures, the reason is shown, they have either openly or more secretly cast off the government of the Lord, here hath been the very wound the ail of all Churches famous and glorious. Psal. 81.14. Oh that they had hearkened, I should then soon have subdued their enemies. The cause is not so hard to find to a discerning spirit who is privy in any measure ⟨p. 20⟩to the counsels of God. 1 King. 9.8, 9. Solomon hath a promise that the Lords eyes and heart shall be to his people which are under him: but if once they slip the Collar, then woe; and why? Because they forsook the Lord that brought them out of Egypt, they had liberty, but they cast it off.
Vse 2. Ʋse 2 Hence see the reason why the Lord hath deprived his Churches of their liberty, and his government over them at sundry times, and hath put them under Iron yokes, and bonds, and sore pressures, the reason is shewn, they have either openly or more secretly cast off the government of the Lord, here hath been the very wound the aile of all Churches famous and glorious. Psal. 81.14. Oh that they had hearkened, I should then soon have subdued their enemies. The cause is not so hard to finde to a discerning spirit who is privy in any measure ⟨p. 20⟩to the councels of God. 1 King. 9.8, 9. Solomon hath a promise that the Lords eyes and heart shall be to his people which are under him: but if once they slip the Coller, then wo; and why? Because they forsook the Lord that brought them out of Egypt, they had liberty, but they cast it off.