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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.
1. To go to God by Prayer, to give you a resolution of all your doubts, and by some means or other, some light to see whether this is his word ⟨p. 48⟩or not. 2. If this be his word, that he would persuade your heart of it, that it is so: For the least resolution which is Scripture, and which is not, is made by the same persuasion, and sole persuasion of the same Spirit that writ the Scripture.
1. To go to God by Prayer, to give you a resolution of all your doubts, and by some means or other, some light to see whether this is his word ⟨p. 48⟩or not. 2. If this be his word, that he would perswade your heart of it, that it is so: For the least resolution which is Scripture, and which is not, is made by the same perswasion, and sole perswasion of the same Spirit that writ the Scripture.
Concerning the Angels that appeared to Mary, see Gerard; and he briefly, I think, will satisfy you, in your answer to the particular scruples about the Scripture sense, and the dissonancy of them. Only this I will add to the last clause about these things, that if the Scripture be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and that not only in the sum and substance of it, but in every word and sentence of it, which I think you will not doubt of, when you have considered it; then I think it will undeniably follow, that the same Spirit of truth is also a Spirit of order; and hence the method of various penning of it, is from the Spirit too, which you say you stick at.
Concerning the Angels that appeared to Mary, see Gerard; and he briefly, I think, will satisfie you, in your answer to the particular scruples about the Scripture sense, and the dissonancy of them. Only this I will add to the last clause about these things, that if the Scripture be inspired by the Holy Ghost, and that not only in the sum and substance of it, but in every word and sentence of it, which I think you will not doubt of, when you have considered it; then I think it will undeniably follow, that the same Spirit of truth is also a Spirit of order; and hence the method of various penning of it, is from the Spirit too, which you say you stick at.