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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
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.
To the Christian Reader.
IT is no disparagement at all, for this wise Master-Builder, Mr. Shepard of New England, to labour sometimes by the Hammer of the Word, to fasten these nails of Truth in a sure place, even in the heads and hearts of Infant-Christians.
Neither is it below the highest Scholar in Christ's School, to hold fast the form of wholesome words. 2 Tim. 1.13.
Neither is it below the highest Scholar in Christ's School, to hold fast the form of wholsome words. 2 Tim. 1.13.
The great Apostle himself, (who was rapt up into the third Heaven) although he had received a commission of Christ his Master to make Disciples, yet he was a Disciple still; for he not only Catechised others, but learned, and that again, and again, The first Principles of the Oracles of God,