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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.
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A. They are two; 1. Contrition, whereby the Spirit immediately cuts off the Soul from its Security in Sin, by making it to mourn for it, and separating the Soul from it, as the greatest Evil. Isa. 61.1, 3. Jer. 4.3, 4. Mat. 11.20, 28. 2. Humiliation, whereby the Spirit cuts the ⟨p. 18⟩Soul off from Self-confidence in any Good it hath or doth; Especially, by making it to feel its Want, and Unworthiness of Christ, and hence submitteth to be disposed of as God pleaseth. Phil. 3.7, 8. Luke 16.9. Luke 15.17, 18, 19.
Q What are the Parts of Vocation of the Soul to CHRIST.
A. 1. The Lord's Call and Invitation of the Soul to come to Christ, in the Revelation and Offer of Christ and his rich Grace. 2. Cor. 5.10.