N04855:112
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…
Some select cases resolved. Specially, tending to the right ordering of the heart, that we may comfortably walk with God in our general and particular callings: &c. In a letter to a pious friend in England. / By Thomas Shepard, M.A. Formerly of Emmanuel-College in Cambridge in England: afterward Minister of Cambridge in New-England. ; Corrected by four several editions.
Boston: printed by Rogers and Fowle, 1747
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
now what is that? why it is this, I will give you the good, and work in you the condition too; I will give you my self, and therefore will not stick to give you an eye to see, and a heart to receive too. This is the covenant: now hereupon a humbled Soul accepts of Christ according to his covenant, on his own terms thus, viz, Upon the ⟨p. 35⟩condition Lord, that thou wilt humble me, teach me, persuade me, cause me to believe, and in every thing to honour thee; Lord, I am contented gladly and joyfully to have thee; do therefore what thou wilt with me. Just as a sick man tells his Physician, who comes not to him on these terms, If you will make your self half whole, then I will cure you, and do the rest for you; but being utterly unable to cure, or to know how to cure himself, he tells his Physician; I am content you should begin and perfect the cure, and so honour your skill and love in me, to be contented to take any thing if you will give it me, and if I offer to resist that, you should bind me, and so do any thing with me.
now what is that? why it is this, I will give you the good, and work in you the condition too; I will give you my self, and therefore will not stick to give you an eye to see, and a heart to receive too. This is the covenant: now hereupon a humbled Soul accepts of Christ according to his covenant, on his own terms thus, viz, Upon the ⟨p. 35⟩condition Lord, that thou wilt humble me, teach me, perswade me, cause me to believe, and in every thing to honour thee; Lord, I am contented gladly and joyfully to have thee; do therefore what thou wilt with me. Just as a sick man tells his Physician, who comes not to him on these terms, If you will make your self half whole, then I will cure you, and do the rest for you; but being utterly unable to cure, or to know how to cure himself, he tells his Physician; I am content you should begin and perfect the cure, and so honour your skill and love in me, to be contented to take any thing if you will give it me, and if I offer to resist that, you should bind me, and so do any thing with me.