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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.
On the Sabbath, May 23. I came to a serious ⟨p. 24⟩Consideration, what Sins were between God, and me, that eclipsed his Love? and I saw my Evils, and resolved with more Care to walk with him, and to be humbled for Evils past. And found my Heart in looking on those Duties I was to do, to be afraid, lest I should fail in the Performance of them. And so I saw, if I laid the Evidence of my Salvation on my Works, it would be various and uncertain as my gracious Works were: And yet on the other Side; I saw that if I did not walk holily in all Things before God, I should not,—I could not have Assurance of my good Estate. So that here I was at some Stand. And in Musing, thus the twenty-fifth Psalm came to Mind, wherein God promiseth the meek and humble to show them his Covenant. And so I saw the Lord at that Time revealing his Covenant unto me; on which I was to build my Assurance, not on my Performance of that Covenant by my own Strength and Graces. Now God's Covenant I saw thus;
On the Sabbath, May 23. I came to a serious ⟨p. 24⟩Consideration, what Sins were between God, and me, that eclipsed his Love? and I saw my Evils, and resolved with more Care to walk with him, and to be humbled for Evils past. And found my Heart in looking on those Duties I was to do, to be afraid, lest I should fail in the Performance of them. And so I saw, if I laid the Evidence of my Salvation on my Works, it would be various and uncertain as my gracious Works were: And yet on the other Side; I saw that if I did not walk holily in all Things before God, I should not,—I could not have Assurance of my good Estate. So that here I was at some Stand. And in Musing, thus the twenty-fifth Psalm came to Mind, wherein God promiseth the meek and humble to shew them his Covenant. And so I saw the Lord at that Time revealing his Covenant unto me; on which I was to build my Assurance, not on my Performance of that Covenant by my own Strength and Graces. Now God's Covenant I saw thus;