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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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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.
5. Because there is apt to be a secret Reservation in our seeming Desires, That the Lord should do all; and the Soul gives up it self to the Lord, but 'tis that the Lord may please my Will, and love me; and if he doth not please me, then the Heart dies: Hence I gave up my Will also into the Lord's Hand, to do with it what he please.
6. I gave up also my whorish Lusts; but that he might take them away.