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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.
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.
Decemb. 1. A small Thing troubled me. Hence I saw, that though the Lord had made me that Night attain to that Part of Humiliation, to see that I deserved nothing but Misery; yet I fell short in this other Part, viz. to submit to God in any crossing Providence or Command, but had a Spirit soon touched and provoked. I saw also, that the Lord let Sin, and Satan prevail there, that I might see my Sin, and be more humbled by it, and so get Strength against it.
Decemb. 16. I saw myself very miserable:
1. Because by my Sin I had separated my self from God, and turned far from him.
2. That he was turned in his Face from me.
(1) I had no Sense of his Majesty, Power, Mercy, Being. (2) No Sense of his Love.