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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. But do not Hypocrites, and no true Members of Christ creep in?
A. Yes: But if they could have been known ⟨p. 26⟩to be such, they ought to be kept out; and when they are known, they are orderly to be cast out. Mat. 25.1. 2 Tim. 3.5. Rev. 2.20. Tit. 3.10.
Q. Are these Members bound only to cleave to Christ their Head by Faith?
A. Yes, and to one another also by Brotherly Love; which they are bound to strengthen and confirm, (as well as their Faith) by a solemn Covenant. Eph. 4.15, 16