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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. Is there any Use of the Law to a Christian?
A. Although it be abolished to a Christian in Christ, as a Covenant of Life; (for so Adam and his Posterity are still under it) yet it remains as a Rule of Life, when he is in Christ, and to prepare the Heart for Christ. Rom. 6.14, 15. Matth. 5.17, 18, 19, 20. Ezek. 20.11. Rom. 9.
Q. Why is not a Christian so under the Law as a Covenant of Life, so as if he breaks it by the least Sin he shall die for it?
A. Because Jesus Christ hath kept it perfectly for him. Rom. 8.3, 4.