A93085:82
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 3. Use 3 Hence see what will become of us that are now under the government of the Lord; if ever we cast it off, either inward, or outward, or both. We are not dearer to him then his people Israel here, nay Judah. When old Israel the great and numerous tribes of Israel had set up calves, little Judah and Benjamin received the Priests, and yet they fell and were in bondage. I know we are not yet in bondage; yet it is not more unseasonable to speak now then for the Lord to Solomon, 1 King 9.1.
Ʋse 3. Ʋse 3 Hence see what will become of us that are now under the government of the Lord; if ever we cast it off, either inward, or outward, or both. We are not dearer to him then his people Israel here, nay Judah. When old Israel the great and numerous tribes of Israel had set up calves, little Judah and Benjamin received the Priests, and yet they fell and were in bondage. I know we are not yet in bondage; yet it is not more unseasonable to speake now then for the Lord to Solomon, 1 King 9.1.
Quest. Quest. But there being much unsubduednes ⟨p. 23⟩in the hearts of the best, how shall one know when there be such sins for which the Lord will cast from under his government?
Quest. Quest. But there being much unsubduednes ⟨p. 23⟩in the hearts of the best, how shall one know when there be such sinnes for which the Lord will cast from under his government?
Answer 1. Answ. 1 When men do not loath their own hearts for their unprofitableness, but loath Gods ordinances secretly, and grow weary of them as of their burdens, because of the unprofitableness of them. When a people find not that special good by them which recompenseth all losses, and so prize them, but lay blame on them because unfruitful to them,