A93085:78
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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And what do you think of the reason of the long reign of Antichrist, exalting himself above God and all that's called God, bringing the Church under the heaviest bondage for body and soul that ever the earth saw? Men did not love the truth, either speculative to guide their minds, or practical to rule their wills; and hence left to this day.
And what do you think of the reason of the long reign of Antichrist, exalting himself above God and all that's called God, bringing the Church under the heaviest bondage for body and soul that ever the earth saw? Men did not love the truth, either speculative to guide their minds, or practical to rule their wils; and hence left to this day.
What is the cause of Bleeding Germanies woe? Oh poor Germany! Whence the Gospel first brake out in its full strength, that now 'tis a field of blood, that men in woods like satires are afraid of men, and men in cities glad to eat the entrails of Beasts, and sometimes the flesh of their own babes to preserve their lives. What was there no evil, but the common condition of the Church to be under the cross? ask them, they cannot tell what ails them, but curse the Emperor and Swedes, &c. Oh think of it with sorrow in secret for them that know it not themselves, they have secretly, I say, secretly cast off the government of a merciful Christ, and hence are under the hand of unmerciful men.
What is the cause of Bleeding Germanies wo? Oh poor Germany! Whence the Gospel first brake out in its full strength, that now 'tis a field of blood, that men in woods like satyres are afraid of men, and men in cities glad to eat the intrailes of Beasts, and sometimes the flesh of their own babes to preserve their lives. What was there no evil, but the common condition of the Church to be under the crosse? ask them, they cannot tell what ailes them, but curse the Emperour and Swedes, &c. Oh think of it with sorrow in secret for them that know it not themselves, they have secretly, I say, secretly cast off the government of a merciful Christ, and hence are under the hand of unmerciful men.