A93085:9
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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One of their sweetest refreshing mercies of God, to his New-England People, amidst all their wilderness-trials, and straits, and sorrows, wherewith they at first conflicted in those ends of the earth, hath been their Sanctuary-enjoyments, in the beauties of holiness, where they have seen and met with him whom their souls l•ve, and had familiar and full converse with him, above what they could then enjoy in the land from whence they came. This is that that hath sweetened many a bitter Cup to the remnant of Israel. The Lord a one led him, and there was no strange God with him, was said concerning Israel of old, and this was accounted mercy enough when he led them into a land where no man dwelt, and which no man passed thorough. What God hath done fo• New-England in this respect, and what their Sanctuary mercies be, thou hast here a taste, though but a taste. These notes may well be thought to be less accurate then if the Author himself had published them, and to want some polishments and trimmings, which it were not sit for any other to add; however ⟨image 3⟩thou wilt find them full of useful truths, and mayest easily discern his Spirit, and a Spirit above his own breathing in them.
ONe of their sweetest refreshing mercies of God, to his New-England People, amidst all their wildernesse-tryals, and straits, and sorrowes, wherewith they at first conflicted in those ends of the earth, hath been their Sanctuary-enjoyments, in the beauties of holinesse, where they have seen and met with him whom their soules l•ve, and had familiar and full converse with him, above what they could then enjoy in the land from whence they came. This is that that hath sweetned many a bitter Cup to the remnant of Israel. The Lord a one led him, and there was no strange God with him, was said concerning Israel of old, and this was accounted mercy enough when he led them into a land where no man dwelt, and which no man passed thorough. What God hath done fo• New-England in this respect, and what their Sanctuary mercies be, thou hast here a taste, though but a taste. These notes may well be thought to be lesse accurate then if the Author himself had published them, and to want some polishments and trimmings, which it were not sit for any other to adde; however ⟨image 3⟩