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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. 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.
3. I saw Sin had shut him from me, and my Unbelief, when he came to me, shut him out of me. Hence I saw a Need of a Mediator between us, and mourned.