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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. The Lord may threaten and correct them, but his Loving-kindness (in covering their Sins in their best Duties by Christ, and accepting their meanest Services so far as they are quickened by his Spirit) is never taken from them. Psal. 89.31, 32, 33. Zach. 3.1, to 8. Isa. 56.7. Rom. 7.20.
A. The Lord may threaten and correct them, but his Loving-kindness (in covering their Sins in their best Duties by Christ, and accepting their meanest Services so far as they are quickned by his Spirit) is never taken from them. Psal. 89.31, 32, 33. Zach. 3.1, to 8. Isa. 56.7. Rom. 7.20.
Q What is that imperfect Obedience of Believers which is accepted?
A. When they so observe the Will of Christ, as that therein, 1. They confess and lament their Sins. 1 John 1.9. Rom. 7.24. 2. They desire Mercy in the Blood of Christ, and more of his Spirit.