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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.
June 6. On the Sabbath I desired the Lord to bind my Hands, or rather cut them off, I mean my vile Will and Affe•••••s, whereby I have so oft smote him. And I saw what good Reason there was that, as I had struck the Lord with my Will; now when I am convinced of my Sin, those Hands should first embrace him by Faith that have smote him; and that I should strike my self upon my Thigh, and mourn for, and morti•• my Sin in Abusing the Lord.
June 8 I saw it my Duty to be and live in every Place as Christ in this World: To do that which he would do, and live and walk as he would walk, if ⟨p. 26⟩here present— 1 John 2.4. We ought to walk as he walked; especially 1. In Love. 2. In Meekness. And my Heart was much affected with this Truth. And my Heart secretly relented to think, that seeing Christ is not known;
1. What Glory would this be to Christ?