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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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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.
May 30. On Sabbath Day after Sermon I saw that my Sin was (1) To look on my Ministry's Faults, and be discouraged. (2) To look on their good, and be puffed up. (3) If all was done well, then to look upon them, as if they were, Absalom-like; that from the Head to the Foot of them there was no Blemish. But I loathed my self for it, and prayed for everlasting Blessing on them.
May 30. On Sabbath Day after Sermon I saw that my Sin was (1) To look on my Ministry's Faults, and be discouraged. (2) To look on their good, and be puffed up. (3) If all was done well, then to look upon them, as if they were, Absalom-like; that from the Head to the Foot of them there was no Blemish. But I loathed my self for it, and pray'd for everlasting Blessing on them.
June 3. When Tidings came to me of the casting away of Mrs. E•ton, I did learn this Lesson; When ever any Affliction came not to rub up my former, old, true Humiliation, but to be more humbled. For I saw I was very apt to do the first. And I blessed God for the Sight of this Truth.