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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
Case 6: CASE VI. Of Unwillingness to and Weariness in solemn Services.
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.
3. Your union to Christ on your part in begun, ⟨p. 44⟩and partly wrought by the understanding: and hence the good that you get by it at any time, it is from your union, or part of it at least.
QUESTION II. Of spiritual Union.
Again you ask me, whether Calvin doth not express fully my thoughts about our Spiritual Union in his lib. 4. cap. 17.
Answ. I answer, I have forgot what he has writ, and my self have read long since out of him; and for the present I have no books about me where I am; and therefore cannot satisfy you in this: neither know I when I shall seek to find out the book and place: If I have leisure, I will either write to you, or tell some of your friends before I am gone, what he hath said or writ that way, &c.
Answ. I answer, I have forgot what he has writ, and my self have read long since out of him; and for the present I have no books about me where I am; and therefore cannot satisfie you in this: neither know I when I shall seek to find out the book and place: If I have leisure, I will either write to you, or tell some of your friends before I am gone, what he hath said or writ that way, &c.