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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.
1. I acknowledged, all I had or was, was his own; (as David spake of their Offerings) and so I acknowledged him the Owner.
2. I resigned not only my Goods and Estate, but Child, Wife, Church and Self unto the Lord, out of Love, as being the best and dearest Things which I have.
3. I prized it as the greatest Mercy, if the Lord would take them, and so desired the Lord to do it.
4. I desired him to take all for a threefold End, (1) To do with me what he would, (2) To love me, (3) To honour himself by me and by all mine.