A93085:95
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. When the whole foul gives entertainment ⟨p. 32⟩unto the Lord himself to come into it: for if a people shall say they are under such a government, and yet will not admit the Prince himself to come amongst them, but keep him out of the kingdom,§2 they cast off his government and his kingdom.
1. When the whole foul gives entertainment ⟨p. 32⟩unto the Lord himself to come into it: for if a people shall say they are under such a government, and yet will not admit the Prince himself to come amongst them, but keep him out of the kingdome,§2 they cast off his government and his kingdome.
2. When the whole foul closeth with the whole will of the Lord; for if a people shall receive a Prince amongst them, but he shall make no wholesome Laws to govern them, but will be led by their own wills and lusts,§3 they pull down his kingdom.
2. When the whole foul closeth with the whole will of the Lord; for if a people shall receive a Prince amongst them, but he shall make no wholesome Laws to governe them, but will be led by their own wills and lusts,§3 they pull down his kingdome.