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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. 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.
7. That he would keep me also from all Sin and Evil.
Thus I gave my self to the Lord; but then I questioned (2) Will the Lord take me?
Answ. 1. I saw that the Lord desired and commanded me to give him my Heart.