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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.
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.
May 29. I was musing on the Witness of the Spirit, And I considered as Men had their Voice; so that which he spake, whose Voice is most sweet, is witnessed to the Hearts of his People by the still Voice of his Spirit.
I saw also that Christ lives, and hath overcome Death; and hence is ready to quicken all his he died ⟨p. 25⟩for; not to a Life different from his own, but with his own Life, and brings them to it, which was mighty thorough God; and this was a sweet Support to me in Prayer, when I felt a Need of Redemption from all Sin by this Life.—So I saw that God did live, when he spake, when he quickened, and did work; and he was then a living God to me, when I heard his Voice and felt his Works upon me and in me; And to want these was to be estranged from the Life of God.