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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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April 18. On Sabbath, I found my Heart full of Enmity, and I saw it was Satan that filled it; when I should with Fear have heard what God spake, and with Care received the Word, and kept it in my Heart, by which Christ himself comes in; as I saw by Temptation Satan entered into wicked Men's Hearts: But the Lord humbled my Soul in some Measure, and made me desire Pardon and Healing of Satan's Wound by his Mercy in Christ.
April 18. On Sabbath, I found my Heart full of Enmity, and I saw it was Satan that fill'd it; when I should with Fear have heard what God spake, and with Care received the Word, and kept it in my Heart, by which Christ himself comes in; as I saw by Temptation Satan entred into wicked Men's Hearts: But the Lord humbled my Soul in some Measure, and made me desire Pardon and Healing of Satan's Wound by his Mercy in Christ.
April 25. I saw God would accept me for Christ's Sake; but I feared much, I might not take Christ aright. Hence this came to my Mind, That to take Christ because he commands me so to do, is no Presumption.
(1) Because this honours him. (2) Because he that will submit to one Command thus, will submit to all. (3) Because I saw, that he that let's in Christ's Command into his Heart, receives Christ; and he that receives one Command thus, receives all Christ, and all the Commands of Christ.