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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. What Glory would this be to Christ?
2. What a Presence of Christ would there be in this Place?
3. What sweet Peace would it yield me when I came to die, if I should live thus or seek to do so? O Lord imprint this Image upon me, and give the Spirit of this thy Son to me.
June 12. I thought if God was the Fountain of all Blessedness, that then (1) My Sins were great which stopped it up, that I am so miserable, and (2) That I was the more miserable to stand without, and hear of the good Things in him, and taste them not, enjoy them not.
June 12. I thought if God was the Fountain of all Blessedness, that then (1) My Sins were great which stop'd it up, that I am so miserable, and (2) That I was the more miserable to stand without, and hear of the good Things in him, and taste them not, enjoy them not.