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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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5. I saw I wanted a Spirit of Life within to make me exemplary without.
6. I saw I wanted the Power of the Holy Ghost, and that I was not mighty in Word and Spirit and in Administrations.
7. I saw a secret Eye I had to my Name in all I did; for which I judged my self worthy of Death, but I did not grow weaned from all created Glory, from Honour, Wisdom, Esteem of others &c.
April 5. I saw I did not remember the Sins of my Youth; nay the Sins of one Day I forgot the next Day; and so I spent my Time.
I was on my Bed praying this Morning, and the Lord helped me to pour out my Heart before him. And I saw, I could plead nothing in my self in regard of any Worthiness and Grace, or any Thing in Regard of God's Providence, or Promise; but only his good