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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.
CORRECTIONS.
Page. | Line. | Read. 8. | 17. | banish from you 9. | 4, 5. | Your Friends have had the Welcome and have lodged 12. | 13, 14. | involuntary 20. | 16. | (as Election 48. | 21, 22. | Again to your Complaint,
[And I suppose this Paragraph should come in at the End of Page 18.]
Dear Sir,
I Dare not multiply many words in acknowledging and professing my own unfitness and insufficiency to yield your loving and most welcome Letter, that satisfaction which both Yourself desire, and it deserves: Neither yet will I be so unfaithful to you; seeing your expectation puts me to reply: Neither ought I (I think) be so unserviceable to JESUS CHRIST, who in you, and by you, beckons to me to take this call to write to you, and not to neglect so fair a season; seeing especially it may be possible my dying Letter to you, before I depart from hence, and return to him, as not knowing but our last disasters and Sea-straits, of which I wrote to you, may be but preparations for the execution of this next approaching voyage. Yet our eyes are to the hills, and our desires are your prayers: and at this time my endeavour shall be in respect of your self, to break open that light to you, and to prepare it to you, with that brevity I may, and with what plainness I am able: beseeching the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who must be when all fails, the wonderful