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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 saw him call me to himself, that he might make good his everlasting Covenant: So I came.
2. I saw that his Covenant was, that he would Pardon, heal and work all the Works of his People.
3. I saw he would do all this for me, if I would by Faith depend and rest upon the Grace of his Covenant so to do.
4. This Dependence on him to fulfil his Covenant to sanctify, quicken, humble me &c. I took to be my Evidence of Love, though I should fail in Duties, or God should leave me justly to my Sins.
4. This Dependance on him to fulfil his Covenant to sanctify, quicken, humble me &c. I took to be my Evidence of Love, though I should fail in Duties, or God should leave me justly to my Sins.