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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.
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, Heb. 5.12. which are called The Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, Mat. 13.11. and The depths of God: Ta Bathee tov Theou, 1 Cor. 2.10. that is in plain English, those Doctrinal Truths, which are truly Fundamental, and absolutely necessary unto salvation; that ⟨image ?⟩we may be able by sound Doctrine both to Exhort and Convince the Gain-sayers, Tit. 1.9. and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason, of the hope that is in us. 1 Pet. 3.15.
Thus heartily beseeching thee, in the Name of Christ, to search the Scriptures, John 5.39. and to give thy self continually to Prayer, and the Ministry of the Word; Acts 6.4. that you may grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST, 2 Pet. 3.18. I now commend you to GOD, and to the Word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are Sanctified, Acts 20.32. So be it.