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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.
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.
QUESTION III. Of the Cure of Atheistical Thoughts.
Again thirdly, You desire me to tell you how my self came to the Cure of Atheistical Thoughts? and whether they did wear out, or whether they were rationally overthrown? &c.