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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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Feb. 9. I considered, When I could not bring Christ's Will to mine, I was to bring mine to his. But then it must be thus. (1) That if ever he gives my Desire it will be infinite Mercy, and so his Will is good. (2) If he doth not, yet that I deserved to be crossed, and to feel nothing but Extremity.
Feb. 9. I considered, When I could not bring Christ's Will to mine, I was to bring mine to his. But then it must be thus. (1) That if ever he gives my Desire it will be infinite Mercy, and so his Will is good. (2) If he doth not, yet that I deserved to be cross'd, and to feel nothing but Extremity.
Feb. 14. When there was a Church Meeting to be resolved about our Going away [viz. to Matabeseck.] I looked on my self as poor, and as unable to resolve my Self, or to guide others, or my Self in any Action, as a Beast: And I saw my self, in Respect of Christ, as brutish, as a Brute is in Respect of Man: And hence, (1) I left my self on Christ's Wisdom. (2) I understood the Meaning of Prov. 30. That, tho' Agur knew he had Wisdom, yet in Respect of Christ he was brutish; and also in Respect of Man. As it is said, There is none Good but God; and when God is called only wise.
Feb. 14. When there was a Church Meeting to be resolved about our Going away [viz. to Matabeseck.] I looked on my self as poor, and as unable to resolve my Self, or to guide others, or my Self in any Action, as a Beast: And I saw my self, in Respect of Christ, as bruitish, as a Brute is in Respect of Man: And hence, (1) I left my self on Christ's Wisdom. (2) I understood the Meaning of Prov. 30. That, tho' Agur knew he had Wisdom, yet in Respect of Christ he was brutish; and also in Respect of Man. As it is said, There is none Good but God; and when God is called only wise.