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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
THE Sum of Christian Religion: In Way of Question and Answer.
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.
Q. What is the good Pleasure of GOD's will?
A. It is the most free Act of his Will, whereby he willeth himself directly, as the greatest good, and all other things for himself, according to ⟨p. 7⟩his good pleasure. Matth. 11.25. Prov. 16.4.
Q. What learn you from hence?
A. That GOD'S good pleasure is he first and best cause of all things. Psal. 115.3. Psal. 33.8, 9, 10, 11.