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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.
A. Whereby the Lord joining the Soul to Christ, makes it one Spirit with Christ, and so gives it Possession of Christ, and Right unto all the Benefits and Blessings of Christ. 1 Cor. 6.17. John 17.21. Rom. 8.32. 1 John 5.12.
Q. How doth the Spirit make this Union?
A. Two Ways.
1. By cutting off the Soul from the old Adam, or the wild Olive Tree, in the Work of Preparation. Rom. 11.23, 24. 2. By putting or ingrafting the Soul into the second Adam, Christ Jesus, by the Work of Vocation. Act. 26.18