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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
MEDITATIONS AND Spiritual Experiences OF Mr. THOMAS SHEPARD.
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3. When my Heart objected, can you be content that Christ should lose his Honour, and his Ordinance be blemished by your Straitening? I then saw, I was ⟨p. 2⟩to be content to want them in Regard of my own Unworthiness; and so, (1) To be vile in my own Eyes for my Sin, that moves the Lord to deny. (2) To mourn that he should not glorify himself by me. (3) Then to pray him the more earnestly to glorify himself by doing for me by his own Hand. (4) I saw therefore that I should leave my self with the Lord for that End, with him who all had, and only did all.
3. When my Heart objected, can you be content that Christ should lose his Honour, and his Ordinance be blemished by your Straitning? I then saw, I was ⟨p. 2⟩to be content to want them in Regard of my own Unworthiness; and so, (1) To be vile in my own Eyes for my Sin, that moves the Lord to deny. (2) To mourn that he should not glorify himself by me. (3) Then to pray him the more earnestly to glorify himself by doing for me by his own Hand. (4) I saw therefore that I should leave my self with the Lord for that End, with him who all had, and only did all.
Nov. 29. In Prayer, I saw my Heart very vile, filled with Nothing but Evil; nay Mind and Mouth and Life, and all void of God. Hence I prayed to the Lord to possess me again (1) Because he only was good, (2) Because he only was worthy.
Nov. 29. In Prayer, I saw my Heart very vile, fill'd with Nothing but Evil; nay Mind and Mouth and Life, and all void of God. Hence I prayed to the Lord to possess me again (1) Because he only was good, (2) Because he only was worthy.