N04855:30
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.
THIS holy Letter of that ready Scribe of Christ's Kingdom, [Mr. Shepard of New-England] is so full of Grace and Truth, that it needs no other Epistle commendatory than it self.
Yet seeing the Lot is unexpectedly fallen upon my Pen, to give it a Superscription that it may pass current from Hand to Hand; I do heartily in the first Place, dedicate it to thee, thou bleeding-troubled-Spirit, as a choice cordial Friend, and Interpreter, one of a Thousand, that doth not only speak thy Heart, but by the Comforter (whom Christ hath promised to send) to thy Heart.
Yet seeing the Lot is unexpectedly fallen upon my Pen, to give it a Superscription that it may pass current from Hand to Hand; I do heartily in the first Place, dedicate it to thee, thou bleeding-troubled-Spirit, as a choice condial Friend, and Interpreter, one of a Thousand, that doth not only speak thy Heart, but by the Comforter (whom Christ hath promised to send) to thy Heart.